WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump makes his second trip in the week to an important battleground state, traveling Thursday to Wisconsin as polls show him losing ground to former vice-chairman Joe Biden during this fall’s election.
Trump is heading to the northeastern part of Wisconsin, where he's set to tour Fincantieri Marinette Marine. The shipbuilder recently was awarded a $5.5 billion federal contract to create up missile frigates for the Navy, a deal that will keep the company's employees working for the subsequent 20 years and cause the hiring of about 1,000 new workers.
Trump also will stop in Green Bay, where he's scheduled to tape a government building meeting with Fox News host Sean Hannity.
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Though not a political campaign trip, the events will give Trump a chance to seem before voters during a state that would be pivotal to choose the November election.
The trip – Trump’s first to Wisconsin since January – comes just two days after vice-chairman Mike Pence made a pair of appearances within the state to court evangelical voters.
Both Trump and Biden hope to win Wisconsin this November after Trump narrowly carried the state four years ago, handing it to Republicans for the primary time in years.
Trump won Wisconsin by but a decimal point in 2016, a margin that helped give him a foothold within the body and propelled him to the presidency. But a Marquette University school of law Poll released Wednesday showed Biden with an eight-point lead during this year’s presidential contest.
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Nationwide, the political landscape appears even more bleak for the president.
A New York Times/Siena College poll released Wednesday shows Trump trailing Biden by 14 points, the previous vice president’s largest lead yet in any of the dozen national polls taken this month.
Trump is trying to regain his footing within the face of discouraging poll numbers and an underwhelming political rally last Saturday that found him chatting with a smaller-than-expected crowd during a half-empty arena in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Trump traveled Tuesday to the swing state of Arizona, where he surveyed a neighborhood of border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and fired up a crowd of children at a campaign-like rally during a megachurch in Phoenix.
Trump also has made recent stops at other swing states, including Michigan and Pennsylvania, to showcase U.S. companies.
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