President Trump headed to the crucial Wisconsin general election state Thursday to tour and speak to workers at a major shipyard that recently won a contract to build up to 10 Navy frigates and sit down for a city council with Fox News.
But his visit to Wisconsin comes when two new polls spell trouble for the president in a state that has spanned four years.
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The president will visit Fincantieri Marinette Marine in Marinette, Wisconsin, where he is expected to promote the $ 5.5 billion federal contract, which the company says will allow them to expand their shipyard and possibly add 1,000 jobs.
Later in the day, Trump will sit in Green Bay with Fox News’ Sean Hannity for a city council that will air at 9 p.m. ET on the Fox News Channel.
The trip, the president’s first to the state since January, comes when a New York Times / Siena College poll released Thursday indicates that former Vice President Joe Biden, the alleged Democratic candidate, is leading Trump by a margin of 49- 38 percent in Wisconsin. And a Marquette Law School poll released Wednesday showed Biden outnumbered Trump 49-41 percent. A RealClearPolitics average of the most recent polls in the state, including a Fox News poll, puts Biden 8 percentage points ahead of the president.
Although it is an official White House trip rather than a campaign stop, the visit will give the president media attention in a crucial state that could decide the November elections.
Wisconsin is one of three states called the “Rust Belt,” along with Pennsylvania and Michigan, which Democrats conducted in the quarter-century presidential election until Trump changed them from blue to red in 2016, which It helped him upset the Democrats. Hillary Clinton nominated to win the White House.
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Trump’s stop in the state comes just two days after Vice President Pence made a couple of appearances in Wisconsin to woo evangelical voters.
Ahead of Trump’s Thursday trip, Biden targeted the president.
Today, Donald Trump is on Marinette to take credit for the successes fueled by the Obama-Biden administration in an attempt to cover up the fact that Wisconsin has been bleeding blue collar manufacturing jobs in recent weeks. Rather than offering real relief to working families, he is trying to claim credit for progress on Marinette that he did not build, “Biden wrote.
The former vice president also touted that “the Obama-Biden Administration invested in shipbuilding at Marinette and fostered high-paying jobs throughout the Fox Valley to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan for the better part of a decade.”
Fox News’ Madeleine Rivera contributed to this report.
