Trump is not going to win WI. A week ago he may have had a chance, but now, not so much.
He came in and urinated all over the conservative base with his left wing talking points. From the things he said, I couldn't distinguish him from bernie.
Yes. Trump's campaign is largely one of delivering a
parody of what someone who was raised and lived most his life in the NYC bubble
thinks a conservative in flyover country wants to hear. Spiced up with some populist/lefty points he or his campaign thinks will create crossover and a plurality.
Of course, what's disappointing is how well it's working.
However, it causes him to deliver missteps. He's been busy bashing Wisconsin, the WI GOP, and Governor Walker who's done several excellent things, balancing the budget, breaking the .gov unions in the state, and having the only fully funded state pension system in the country. Saying the state is in economic doldrums bad unemployment etc. which is untrue.
I kind of understood it when he was just in mudslinging mode when Walker was in the GOP field, and he needed whatever talking points he could throw at him, like bashing him on non-existent budget deficits. They were
projected deficits, and and (gasp!) the GOP majority in the Legislature and Walker simply...
spent less, and no deficit. (funny how that works...) The lefty press always desperate for anything they can sling at Walker, because the way he's dismantled the "
taxes -> .gov unions -> Democrat campaign donations -> taxes" money laundering machine terrifies them, and they made a lot of hay out of the story, which by and large was untrue, and did not come to pass. And Trump and his handlers siezed on that, without bothering to look if it was really true.
Now that Trump is campaigning for WI's delegates in the primary, to continue harping on these points, it's a completely tone-deaf misstep. WI does not have state-level GOP disaffection like there is nationally that he can exploit. State level GOP unity is running at about 99% here because of the highly polarizing batshit insane fight we've had over the past 5-6 years passing these things, and the hard-Left protests against them that's made it clear to everyone on the Right, and even the moderate middle what the Left is really like when the mask is off.
And of course the GOP has by and large delivered on everything the base in WI has wanted. .gov union's busted, CCW, tax cuts, balanced budget, right-to-work etc.
