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The Fox News Decision Desk projects former President Donald Trump has won the state of Wisconsin in the 2024 election against Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump officially beat Harris in the once "blue wall" state, which was considered a toss-up by political handicappers across the board. As a result, Wisconsin's 10 electoral votes will be allocated to Trump in his bid for the White House.
CHECK OUT OUR FOX NEWS ELECTION HUB HERE Trump and Harris are each fighting to win swing state Wisconsin which has gone both Democrat and Republican in the past two elections. (Reuters/IStock) The Midwestern state has been thought to be crucial to Democrat wins for executive office. Notably, former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's failure to campaign in the state was credited by many for her loss to Trump in 2016.
President Biden's 2020 defeat of Trump included flipping Wisconsin and a number of other states for Democrats. HARRIS BREAKS SILENCE AFTER GOP LEADERS SAY ANTI-TRUMP RHETORIC 'RISKS INVITING' ANOTHER ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT Biden won the state in 2020. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images) Both Trump and Harris made Wisconsin a focal point of their presidential campaigns, visiting the state frequently through the last weeks of the election.
The two candidates each emphasized their support for workers in the state, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., even lent his help to Harris' effort to court working-class voters.
SEN TAMMY BALDWIN HITS BACK AT GOP OPPONENT'S CLINTON COMPARISON: 'ACTUALLY CALLED YOU DEPLORABLE' Sanders has urged voters to back Harris. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Trump deployed his own star power in the state, featuring former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre at a Wisconsin rally roughly a week before the election.
Fox News Power Rankings held that the state was a "Toss Up" going into the contest. SAM BROWN BEGINS TO CLOSE GAP WITH INCUMBENT SEN. JACKY ROSEN IN BATTLEGROUND NEVADA Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Harris in a side-by-side compilation photo.
(Getty Images) CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP One of the factors that defined the race in Wisconsin was the significant gap between men and women in polls, with men more often supporting Trump and women more often supporting Harris. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub . Julia Johnson is a politics writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business, leading coverage of the U.
S. Senate. She was previously a politics reporter at the Washington Examiner.
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