ELECTION/GOP/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump makes a campaign visit to Wisconsin with Republicans growing increasingly nervous about the prospects of holding onto the governor’s office, let alone picking up a Senate seat held by a well-positioned Democratic incumbent. Trump on Wednesday [10-24-18] will return to a rural part of the state he easily won by double digits in 2016. It is far from the conservative Milwaukee suburbs where his support is weaker, but it’s in an area where Gov. Scott Walker and GOP Senate candidate Leah Vukmir will need to do well. The question is whether Trump’s presence in the tiny central Wisconsin city of Mosinee (population 4,000) will provide enough of a boost to energize Republican voters to matter for Walker and Vukmir less than two weeks before the election. Vukmir is counting on it as she challenges Sen. Tammy Baldwin.”
–The Associated Press, “Trump Turns Focus to Wisconsin’s Races for Senate, Governor,” The New York Times online, October 24, 2018