(NewsNation) — Former President Donald Trump is projected to win Wisconsin, taking 10 electoral votes in the crucial Badger State, according to NewsNation/Decision Decision Desk HQ. See the results of the presidential race in other states here.
Vice President Kamala Harris and Trump had been neck and neck in key battleground states, including Wisconsin, leading up to the election, according to polling by NewsNation partner The Hill.
Wisconsin went to the Democrats in seven straight presidential elections prior to 2016. Trump broke the streak in 2016, narrowly beating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Biden turned the state blue again in 2020, winning by about 20,000 votes.
Both Trump and Harris spent much time campaigning in the state, where the economy was the top issue for nearly a third of voters, followed by threats to democracy and abortion access, according to an October survey by Emerson College Polling and The Hill.
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Trump appeared at a manufacturing facility in Waunakee, a suburb of Wisconsin’s capital city of Madison in the Democratic stronghold of Dane County, in a bid to sway voters. Trump had never campaigned in Dane County nor visited as president.
He also faced heat in the state for allegedly calling Milwaukee “horrible” in a closed-door meeting with Congressional Republicans at Capitol Hill in June.
Trump’s campaign says the former president’s comments were referring to election integrity and crime, with Trump taking to Truth Social, posting, “Democrats are making up stories that I said Milwaukee is a ‘horrible city.’”
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Milwaukee was the site of the Republican National Convention, where Trump accepted the party’s nomination days after an assassination attempt in Butler County, Pennsylvania.
Harris held rallies in Milwaukee and Madison, telling voters that the “path to the White House goes through Wisconsin.”
Her campaign had a large operation in the state, with hundreds of staff and on-the-ground outreach efforts. Supporters in Wisconsin knocked on more than 500,000 doors, and the campaign signed up more than 3,000 new volunteers.
She focused on her message around the middle class, trying to appeal to the white working-class voters who are a key group in the state.
