wisconsin is a big progressive element within the democratic party wisconsin and by the time wisconsin presidential primary came around in early april the national picture had just entirely slept with joe biden taking command of the race and democratic voters across country deciding that he would be the nominee so we had presidential primary in wisconsin that coincided with a big april nonpartisan state election and by the end the state election ended up demanding attention within the state the democratic presidential primary. >> if you look at the campaign with president trump traveling to the state on a couple of occasions and a lot of effort by the democrats with the party convention in milwaukee now in mid august, what do you see on the ground? >> we have had joe biden do virtual ovens and wisconsin. earlier on we had president trump doing wisconsin and this is a big? in particular in the case of the democratic convention which has already been pushed back from a july convention in milwaukee to an august convention in milwaukee, the week before the republican and charlotte but the

it is called the wisconsin -- isn't that nice? the wisconsin supply chain.applause] that has been bugging me for about 25 years. i think that is why i became president, you want to know the truth. what we've done with your great deal, the usmca and cannot no longer takes advantage of us like they did. people don't realize it. o canada, the national anthem, right? o canada, but they were brutal on trade. now they have to treat us fairly. the usmca. we got rid of the worst trade deal ever made in the history of mankind, humankind. like we say it nowadays, even -- humankind. see the ladies? i think they like it the other way just as much. humankind, but i just want to say that we have an incredible deal and it will lead to a lot a very positive things. but the wisconsin supply chain, 9000 more jobs will be generated because of the chain itself. that is a truly phenomenal achievement, and i congratulate you all. it is going to be an incredible thing. it is all going to be made right here in wisconsin. under this administration, you know that american workers lik

our nation is very proud of wisconsin.n ago the future of this historic shipyard is looking and he is the one link. yes, i think we can produce looking bleak. 1044 people. those getting ready to close up and a lot of good things came along. despite your extraordinary service to our country on this generation, this beloved facility, the mainstay of your community by far, you were going to level the poverty actually had levels of poverty that nobody would believe. i understand if manufacturers remember prayed in a factory was never going back. what did come back but he came back big. i have an aptitude for manufacturing. we will now do even better. will have a better year next year and almost any or no history. and we were going through the single greatest year that we have ever had. from an employment standpoint, from a stock market standpoint. any four o one kays right now, people have four o one kays. they are very happy with president trump right now because there must at the level they were when the virus came over. but

president trump this hour is in wisconsin. he is about to take a tour of a local shipyard to deliver remarks. we'll keep an eye on that. the other thing stocks closing right at the highs of the session, really strong move into the close. i'm connell mcshane. melissa: i'm melissa francis. this is "after the bell." major averages gaining steam at the lows closing bell. looking to recover some of yesterday's massive losses. fox business team coverage. jackie deangelis in the newsroom. we'll start with blake burman at white house. reporter: expecting to see president trump in about an hour or so, at least within the next hour as he is in wisconsin right now, far northeast port of that state in the city of marinet. as the president will be at a shipyard there, you reason he is there, the ship in the back of the picture there, that company involved is getting a $5.5 billion contract to build 10 of those very exact ships. 1000 jobs to come into that area. you will likely hear the president tout that and job creation in wisconsin. tha

president, welcome to green bay, wisconsin, great to have you with us.y question for you is with all the unrest we've seen across the country and right here in the state of wisconsin last night in our capital city, a senator was beaten, ripped off her pedestal, we lost some other statues. what steps is the administration taking to give us back our streets? >> very strong. you happen to have a democrat governor right now. you had that, if scott where the governor, he wouldn't have that. the person they beat up was a democrat who happened to be and he was out there rooting them on or something. it's a very sick thing going on, no one's ever seen it. biden is going to be -- i don't think biden is a radical left but it doesn't matter. he's shy. whether you like it or not. the radical left is going to take it over. the prettyma mainline guy. he just got killed in the election week got yesterday, he was supposed to be issue in, and he got hit by a strong far left candidate, you have a couple of other congressmen and women that probably are going to lose or are

he was a voice check in milwaukee wisconsin much of the other part of my book takes place in wisconsin. i use him to make part of that connection. he had signed up as a volunteer for the draft, went to vietnam at age 19. and was killed in the battle from the south side of milwaukee his nickname they could not give him that name in milwaukee here's what you write in your book you said when he was home just before he left for vietnam he gave her, meeting his sister diane advice about how to deal with boyfriends and what to do about their father in their new stepmother. together they remembered the smell of their mother's homemade soup. back when danny was born his tatted planted a pine tree by the side of the house on eighth street. now when a young soldier took a trip back to the old neighborhood he noticed the new owner had cut the pine tree down. why that level of detail? >> that's the way i write. i'm always looking for -- you can call poetic connections, it's of the points in life you remember. i had several long conversations with danny's sister, who was over the course of the year

a large footprint, large fingerprint on our entire state, 200 suppliers in the state of wisconsin so this contract is a big deal for my community but for us it was important for donald trump to be there, his policies have enabled some economic success for us that has been unmatched in recent history. shannon: what does it do when a lot of people have lost their jobs, a lot of people have been out of work, to have those thousand new jobs created in your economy locally to have that 2 million-dollar -- what will that do for the folks of your area? >> we are middle-class community. the coronavirus, a lot of our manufacturing has been essential have continued. hasn't necessarily been the case for small businesses in our area. the coronavirus coupled with potential job losses if we didn't get this contract would have been devastating to my community so this is a very important contract for us as a community and we are excited about it. >> of biden trying to take the president's job, donald trump is in marinette to take credit for obama biden administration, fuel successes and paper over t

and chuck, i know the president is there in wisconsin. joe fryer and folks in arizona, he is not wearing a mask. >> i tell you, i think we should have a psa of people who regret that they didn't take it seriously. that might be very impactful on people having a series of people of just regular, instead of worrying about celebrities, we were talking about that with jim mattis, maybe everyday people who wish they could go back in time and take it seriously and wear the mask. i thought that was a powerful statement from that gentleman. >>> moments ago, as you noted, president trump stepped off of air force one in wisconsin. his first stop, a ship yard that was recently awarded a multi-million dollar contract, and later, the president will be in green bay to tape a town hall with fox news. it's his second trip to a battleground state this week alone. he was in arizona earlier this week. it comes as a new poll there shows him losing ground in wisconsin. biden's lead is 11 points in "the new york times"/sienna college poll. it was a marquette p

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states, wisconsin would be there for him. he's behind in all sorts of places including wisconsin which explains the visit today. you said it's not a campaign visit, but it's a visit to a state where he needs to shore up support. >> mark, even if the president likes to think that those polls, if they don't go in his favor aren't legit, there are a lot of republicans who obviously understand that they are. it was really notable yesterday when john thune, not a guy who normally would upset the apple cart kind of at least gently suggested that the president needed to change his messaging. he's not alone on that. there's some real concern out there, isn't there, particularly among senate republicans who obviously know they're in a fight to hold control. >> chris, i'm really glad you brought upjohn thune's statement from yesterday. it's not just these public polls. all these politicians, incumbent senators, people running for office have reams of polling data, public and private ones. they're all seeing the same thing we're seeing

wisconsin for granted.now in 2020 both parties realize what is at stake in the presidency and who controls the white house runs through the badger state. it will be another close election and i'm convinced wisconsin will be the key state the determine to the next president is. jillian: thank you for joining us, appreciate it. rob: let's talk a little weather, the second or third day of summer. you got a sweater on? a little chilly over there? >> janice: i do have an air-conditioning unit to the right of me that does sometimes keep me a little chilly. let's do the weather as i blushed. rob: good to see you. >> janice: a little chilly in the dean newman high school. we have potential for hot summer weather across the east coast, sweaters will not be required, 73 new york, 66 in rapid city, 63 in minneapolis, where the warm temperatures on the gulf coast. a stationary front is giving us potential for showers and thunderstorms in part of the gold coast, we saw tornado warnings in the louisiana mississippi area,

what needs to be done to stop other wisconsins from happening this fall?l: there's a whole regime of measures, some of which involve in-person voting, and some of which involve absentee voting, that need to be in place in time for the november 2020 election. >> whitaker: marc elias, the democratic party's lead attorney on voting rights, has gone to court in georgia and 17 other states to make sure they have sufficient in-person polling sites, to remove or moderate restrictions to absentee voting and to make sure ballots aren't rejected without giving voters a chance to appeal. the g.o.p. says elias is trying to strip away election safeguards and has amassed a $20 million war chest to fight the democrats in court. >> marc elias: they spend all of their time and energy and money opposing voting rights. >> whitaker: opposing voting rights? >> elias: oh, i don't think there's any question. whatever may have been going on under the surface in republican circles and conservative circles in past election cycles, they are now not just whispering the quiet part out

but the president is headed to wisconsin today in an official capacity.t you can bet he's going to try to shore up his support there among wisconsin voters. he's going to speak at a shipyard that got a lucrative billion dollar navy contract. that shipyard is an in a deeply conservative, mostly rural part of the state. he's then going to go to green bay and give a taped town haul with sean hannity at fox news. you even have senate republicans acknowledging the obvious. senator john thune, the republican whip on the senate, said that the president, obviously, he said, has a problem with independent voters. thune suggested that president trump should think about shifting his messaging, thinking about his tone. but the president clearly has not shown a capacity or a willingness to do any of that so far, andrea. >> and as all of us, charlie, yamiche, geoff, all of us who lived through 2016 are very cautious about the polls, especially national polls. but now you've had three national polls, fox, cnn, and now "the new york times," showing the president with eit

donald trump won wisconsin four years ago and now he's losing wisconsin by 11 points, and that's why he went there today. donald trump's trip was paid for by taxpayers. the white house labeled it an official government trip because donald trump made his speech at a shipyard that builds navy ships. but as john bolton has told us and we already knew, everything donald trump does and says is about his election. so this is not the last trip that will be paid for by the taxpayers and falsely labeled by the white house as an official government trip. donald trump decided to say the second stupidest thing he's ever said about coronavirus on a day when the cdc director revealed a stunning new dimension of the pandemic's reach in the united states. cdc director robert redfield said our best estimate right now is that for every case that's reported there actually are 10 other infections. experts have long believed that we were undercounting coronavirus cases in the united states. but we now have an official estimate that there have been ten times more infections than we thought. that estimate

in the wisconsin primary election . did you or your opening statement, i just want to say that i don't think that either or situation whether or not we have in person voting or whether we have voting with no excuse asked and t balance . in the case by mail. in the case is what is happening, this pastor we banned the voting by mail because as you heard, on april 7th and we all know that the pandemic and a governor was trying to reschedule in the reelection but was filled from doing this by various supreme court decisions. in a covid-19 and search right around april 7th, the conditions were predicted. and tiffany z make a series of choices between exercising their franchise and losing the vote. i would say . [inaudible]. was started out, the day before primary election, and wisconsin, the democratic governor executive order to reschedule the election. an in person despite the risk to voters and workers. at the epicenter of the covid-19 search. the only state to only carry out this during the time when all other states act

she is the first african-american elected to congress from the state of wisconsin. prior to becoming a member of congress, congresswoman moore represented the people of wisconsin in the state house of representatives from 1989 to 1992 and in the state senate from 1993 to 2004. she is currently a member of the house ways and means committee. please proceed. >> thank you very much. thank you for the opportunity to address your important subcommittee who have taken a leadership role among the covid-19 epidemic including authoring the heroes act with key provisions to streamline election administration. your subcommittee. that's conducted a thought-provoking oversight hearing which i had the pleasure of participating in. thank you for your strong, continuing leadership. voting is a right, not a privilege. women's suffrage, civil rights and lgbtq movements have made us get closer to our constitutions aspirations. at this time, our franchise is in danger. president trump and his allies are trying to undermine confidence in absentee voting and by association, our electoral

>> reporter: well, here in this part of wisconsin, chuck, it's a deep red part of wisconsin. it's also a very rural area, so you do have a lot of diehard trump supporters who seem confident in the president's leadership on this. that may be one reason that you see them not wearing masks as they attend this event and others in the area. but as you go to other parts of this state, you do hear from people who see that the numbers of coronavirus cases even here in wisconsin are rising quickly. and it's not just as the president says a matter of you do more testing and you find more cases. they're also seeing the positivity rate increase here, actually double between tuesday and wednesday. you hear a lot of people concerned about that, not convinced that the government is fully taking this serious enoughing enough to do everything they can to stop the rising mortality rates in just a few days or weeks. >> sounds like you're going to be wanting to listen in there in a second, josh, so i will let you do that. but charlie sykes, i want to play a mash-up of when florida and texas in p

of course, wisconsin was the keyest of the swing states in 2016.called a tipping point state. the median electoral college vote was in nose states. the fact that wisconsin has moved all away into biden's column like this, that is very significant news and suggests he has a true electoral college advantage at this point. >> and it's the movement that matters. no one is saying the election is today. we know there are still four months to go. but what this does show and the consistency over the polls, including the cnn national poll, "the new york times" poll, the fox poll, is you're seeing clear movement here. and we don't have a slide for this, but it's broad-based movement, too, among different voting groups, racially, demographically, age wise, education wise. >> that's exactly right. here are a few things i'll just note. wisconsin, which i really wanted to get into, is a state that has a lot of white working class voters. that's white voters without a college degree. the fact that wisconsin is moving so much is an indication that biden is really

president trump in wisconsin is touring a shipyard in northeastern wisconsin, and vice president pencetouting the production of a new american-built all-electric truck at a ford factory in lordstown ohio. the president's trip to wisconsin, follows the award of a 5.5 billion dollar naval contract to the ship yard to build guided missile friggets, and it will keep those employees in wisconsin working for the next two decades. the president is keying in on the chief focus and winning messages from his presidential campaign on: the economy and national security. recent approximately polling shows 56 á aft americans approve by a strong margin the way the president is handelting our economy. >> handling our economy. >> the visit to the hartland is a sharp contract to the itinerary of his adversary, joe biden. it's clear the former vice president is propped up by a captive left-wing media and they are struggling and they are also noring the frequent in-- ignoring the frequent inability to stay focused or hold a press report in almost 84 days. making a rare venture out from his basement to tal

you see what happened to that state senator from madison, wisconsin or from wisconsin last night archedled a statue down and man got his head split wide open. video horrifying. a lot of violence that happens around here as well. people tearing down monuments and defacing them do not know the historical context. baldwin that statue was debased and defaced was abolition iglesias. hans christian heck was abolitionist as well who died fighting slavery. people don't know the historical context of what they're trying to tear down. they are trying to tear down and destroy. we don't do mob rule in america. steve: some said get away from the peaceful protest and this is unhelpful to their message. let me ask you about tonight 7:00 in that park space between the u.s. capitol and rfk stadium in washington, d.c. the activists said a couple of nights ago that is this right there the emancipation statue with abraham lincoln standing over a kneeling slave. they say the imagery there is terrible and they want it down. they say they are going to come after it tonight and tear it down at 7:00. obviously

>> mike tobin live in wisconsin. thank you. we have a fox news alert now. a police officer in grand rapids, michigan has been shot after being ambushed while he was in an unmarked police car. according to a report from local tv, the officer was shot at multiple times by people yesterday who fired more than two dozen rounds at this car. sources say the officer was not hurt. we will continue to monitor this and bring you updates as we get them. well, as you can see, we have a big hour ahead. this seattle, some businesses inside the protest zone are now suing the city. judge andrew andrew napolitano will joining us on that. plus, did you see this interview? >> what do you hope to achieve through violence? >> wow. it's interesting that you would pose that question like that. because this country is built upon violence. what was the american revolution. our diplomacy across the globe. >> geraldo rivera reacts to that ahead and ford is about to unveil the brand new f-150 pickup. a line of trucks that is second in sales only to the iphone. charles payne from fox b

we look state by state -- stuart: in wisconsin. is he leading in your internal polls -- let me just clear this up. because this is important. your internal polls show mr. trump leading in wisconsin, they show him leading in ohio? >> we have him -- yes. yes. we have him leading in almost all of the battleground states in our internal voter scores. and very close in wisconsin and michigan and pennsylvania, states where he was close in 2016. it is going to be a race to the finish line. here's what i do know. we are out organizing the biden campaign, we already have 1100 staff on the ground. they have nothing on the ground. we have been building to turn out our vote for the past two years and they have just started building their infrastructure. i feel very good about where the president is heading into election day. and like you said, voters do not want their taxes raised and that's what joe biden is running on. he will kill our economy and he will bankrupt our country. stuart: ronna, thanks very much for coming on the show and going

michelle back reports from one of those cities dealing with this issue in wisconsin. >>a familiar name, especially in columbus wisconsin, there's nothing here telling the history of how his life thousands of native americans christopher columbus, there's nothing you say that he set a precedent for how european colonizers we treat the native american populations for hundreds of years to come without a more complete story 15 year-old abigail adams says that statue must come down that celebrates men like that. >>should not be on but adam says she's gotten some pushback because in town the statue has a history of its own most columbus's had a christopher columbus statue. and still do daniel a motto commissioned the work in 1981 and he says the statue played a role in the local economy has served the purpose for us we raised money. >>to support wisconsin matching grants for scots and chamber orchestra for 2 years at the capitol. they played music that david crosby road. >>but that was when the statue was in its prime, so i'm happy with where you are goals or whatever happe

if you want to go to the university of wisconsin whitewater, the university of wisconsin whitewater, $6,000 a year you will have another $1,000 fee on top of that so your closed map is $8,000 a year. one of the drivers of this is cost-of-living. what we have done is made money easily accessible. nobody understands compound interest in particular, 17-year-olds. we set up an environment where they can subsidize the current standard of living with what is viewed as relatively low interest loans, easily accessible for the federal government. we set ourselves up for an environment where people are taking debt beyond what they should add so the easy explanation is to survey the students with the latest iphone or those who have their own bedroom rather than bunking in a room with another person like people would have done. i have no interest have another person in my room, no option to pull out additional funds to avoid that. we created an environment where students are taking out significantly more than they need and we need to drive down the underlying cost of product so the x essential t

>> dana, it was a violent mob yesterday in wisconsin state capitol. molotov cocktail and state senator says he was brutally beaten just for taking cell phone video. democratic state senator tim carpenter verse he was capturing video on his cell phone when two protesters or possible aattackers rushed him and apparently told him to stop recording. before the state senator was beaten, here is that interaction played out. [shouting] >> leave my phone alone. >> delete it. [shouting] >> leave my phone alone. >> delete it. >> the protest started after a black man was arrested for following a white man into a restaurant with a baseball bat and mega phone and harassing the white man alleging he is racist. police say that black man resisted arrest and tried to run away. protesters changted for that black man's release and toppled two statues. a short while ago republican state lawmakers blasted the mayor saying the state is in shock at the violence at the capitol. state workers don't feel safe and violent rioters need to be prosecuted. >> one of our colleagues

and the gap is the widest in wisconsin where joe biden leads by nine points.e now, guy benson, host of "the guy benson show," and editor at townhall.com, marie harf, former state department spokesperson. both are fox news contributor's. good to see both of you tonight. marie, your quick take on these numbers as we are probably 30 new cycles away from the actual election. >> at least, and so much can happen between now and november, but the trends are going and joe biden's direction. joe biden's beating donald trump by more than hillary clinton was four years ago. he is running ahead of her. and i don't think that joe biden is probably going to win a state like my home state of ohio. i hope he does, but because he is competitive in states like that where hillary really wasn't, it will force donald trump and republicans to spend money there. so the fact that joe biden is winning across the board in states like wisconsin, and that donald trump supporters in the senate in places like arizona, we see that the republican is losing by double digits to the democratic

look what they did in wisconsin.ot only did they tear a statue down of somebody who fought slavery, they knocked out a democrat state senator. literally knocked him out. this goes against the rule of law. and, lou, you understand this better than anybody when it comes to the constitution. one of the greatest foundations we have in america is the rule of law. they are going against the rule of law, and if we break down the rule of law, we will lose society, and that's the goal behind a lot of these people. if you ask their full soft call beliefs, they're marxist, they're socialist, and they're taking a situation beyond where they should be and trying to tear down the history of this nation, and we all should stand up against it. lou: well, i certainly, i hope that both democrats and republicans will do so and follow this president's lead, because it's, it's past time that they begin to do so. congressman, as always, good to see you. thank you for your words here tonight. congressman kevin mccarthy. >>> on wall street

now, look, i do sympathize with people in wisconsin.times, they only get to be outside, like, two months a year. i mean, their weather is a natural lockdown. but here's the thing that gets me. i understand people who feel like getting kids in school and getting people back to work and reopening doctors' offices is worth the risk of coronavirus. right, i get it. i understand where you're coming from. but if the first thing you do when you're not locked down is pack yourself into bars and spray into each other's faces, something tells me you give zero (bleep) . at least be honest and say this was less about "balancing the risks and benefits" and more about being able to do whatever you want. right now what the people in wisconsin have done is basically someone saying you're dying of thirst, then, when they bring you water, you throw a wet t-shirt contest. will sports return but to empty stadiums? will summer camps take place online? will hugging be replaced by gently poking one another with a long pole. here in new york, there's an idea f

look what happened in wisconsin.e just learned seven voters in wisconsin have been diagnosed with covid-19. people shouldn't have to choose between their personal health and exercising their constitutional right as a patriot, to have their voice weigh in on who will be the next president of the united states. - senator, you obviously launched a very passionate campaign for president. we know that joe biden, the presumptive nominee, has indicated that his choice for vp will be a woman. some people have now taken issue with that. they've thrown out names of governor cuomo, who has said he's not interested in the job. but it's a pledge vice president biden made. was it the right decision, to narrow it down to gender? - i'll tell you, to your point, tamron, i was a candidate for president, among the top five throughout the campaign. when i was asked who i would picture my vice president, i said back then i haven't decided yet who she'll be. [laughter] i'm not hatin'! [laughs] - let me get to the chase here. you know your

states like georgia, iowa, nebraska, ohio, west virginia and most recently wisconsin. how americans vote securely and safely. >> i understand 33 states have the voting from home option. 66% or two thirds of the state. you say all should have a vote by mail option and the majority of people already have a vote by mail option where is the opposition coming from. >> 34 states have no excuse. 15 states have some version of vote by mail. so all 50 states plus the district of columbia offer vote by mail. the challenge is the access and it's those states that have strained access or the need to scale up who's going to request it. we saw this play out yesterday in pennsylvania where the number of people requesting vote by mail because they can outstrip the capacity of the states to meet the need. the issue is not that it can't be done but that the states required to support make it so and we need a guard rail. to address the question, we are not trying to force states to conform exactly to the same election that we are trying to set the flooset up for four witc understanding o

that does not mean he could not make it back up, but comparing michigan with wisconsin and pennsylvaniaother states he won closely, michigan is looking better for biden. host: let's go back to 2016, many said michigan was a blue wall for hillary clinton. president trump winning it by a thousand votes. why did he win it, and what is the lesson for democrats this year? todd: from all the work i have done post 2016, looking at a lot of data, the thing that jumped out at me, neither hillary clinton nor president trump were well-liked. michigan was seen as a state 1988,ats had won since and hillary clinton did not spend a lot of time there. high in the state, and people did not show up. election day, our polls showed her off a bit. on election day you had something like 75,000 people show up at polls who did not vote for any presidential candidate. when you are looking at a margin votes, of over 700,000 that 75,000 that did not vote for a president was more than , whoh to throw it to trump had more enthusiasm in rural areas than claim did anywhere. -- than clinton did anywhere. host: this ye

i am from wisconsin.e had people in medicine with guns and rocket launchers complaining about reopening wisconsin, and wisconsin, like other states in the south, florida, texas, arizona, who are republican-led governors, that opened the states up, and the medical malpractice has been -- really the people are paying a price as a result of the spread of this virus, and we don't have leadership in order to stop it right now. according to a lot of the doctors, this virus is dam near out of control as a result of ,onald trump's mixed messages and people are going to die. they are going to continue to die. i go out in wisconsin and go shopping, no matter where i go, you have your high percentage of people not wearing masks. it is very scary. and a person 70 years old, knowing that i am in the high risk category, being black, and scary whent is people are walking around and people are walking up on you, talking to you, and you have a huge fear that you may catch the of theobviously that 80% people are surviving

a new poll shows biden leading the president 49% to 41% among registered voters in wisconsin. a state that propelled trump to the presidency in 2016. >> i'm here today for one main reason, to say thank you to the people of wisconsin, incredible people. >> reporter: the poll shows less than half of voters in wisconsin, 44%, approve of how trump is handling the pandemic and according to another poll, the race is a dead heat in ohio. biden with 46% support among registered voters in that state compared with trump's 45%. that poll shows voters in ohio preferred trump when they're asked who would better handle the economy. 53% saying the president. only 43% choosing biden. the former vice president recently focusing on the issue. >> i'm worried when you look deeper through the data. while temporary layoffs went down, permanent layoffs went up. donald trump still doesn't get it. >> reporter: days later the trump team releasing this campaign ad. >> joe biden's failed old liberal ideas would crush our economy just as it's recovering. >> reporter: but when it comes to handling a crisis

try as he may, trump landed in wisconsin with coronavirus cases in the u.s. at their highest point since april as the fallout from his decision to hold a rally in the middle of a pandemic continues. all of his campaign staffers and dozens of secrets agents at the rally are quarantining after several of their colleagues tested positive as trump and his top aides are downplaying new outbreaks across the country. >> some 38 states across the country, cases are stable or even declining. >> but that's not true. according to the latest figures from johns hopkins, 20 states are steady or declining. today trump's top economic adviser who wrongly claimed in march that the coronavirus was contained predicted there won't be anymore widespread shutdowns. >> we have to live with this from time to time but that's a different matter than the whole country. >> today's presidential visit to wisconsin will look a lot different than his last one. instead of holding a massive rally as he did in january, trump is visiting a ship builder as he hopes to build support in a state whe

the president heading into wisconsin, a swing state. there is a pollster by the name of rich tau doing a lot of really monthly interviews with swing voters in swing districts that went for obama and then trump. the last round this month six of the people he talked to voted for trump and obama and then trump. they all said that the president is being ridiculous and irresponsible, my word but effectively what they said in not wearing a mask. that if anything else -- if nothing else, tell the president that he's on the wrong side of this for the people he needs to win re-election if that's the thing that is guiding all of this. >> people who live in the real world live this every day. they understand. they're trying to go to work and deal with the kids. the questions. an issue here is the president said he did a phenomenal job and that we in the media and the american people to give him more credit. the former national security add vier said at the beginning the president wanted no part of it. >> he didn't want to hear about the potential

joe biden with an eight-point lead in wisconsin and a lead in ohio of a single point, brooke. >> boris sanchez, thank you. and we'll bring you president trump live as we mentioned as he faces reporters in the rose garden moments from now. >>> a former prosecutor is speaking out today accusing top officials in the justice department of going easy on roger stone because he's close to the president. >>> and the governor of wisconsin is prepared to call in the national guard after a violent night of protests that included a state senator being assaulted. you're watching cnn, i'm brooke baldwin. that's why we're expanding your range of choices. many dealers now offer optional pick-up & delivery and at-home maintenance, as well as online shopping with home delivery and special finance arrangements. so, whether you visit your local dealer or prefer the comfort of home you can count on the very highest level of service. get 0% apr financing up to 36 months on most models, and 90-day first-payment deferral on any model. proof i can fight moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. proof i can figh

that does not mean he could not make it back up but comparing michigan with wisconsin in pennsylvania, the other two states that he won closely, michigan is looking better for biden than for the president. >> let's go back to 2016. many people said michigan was the blue wall for hillary clinton. trump winning by 11,000 votes. why did he win michigan and what are the lessons for the democrats this year? didrom all the work that i post 2016 looking at a lot of data, the things that jump out at me are that neither hillary wereon nor president trump well-liked. that was obvious. michigan was seen as a state that democrats had run -- won routinely since 1988. hillary clinton did not spend a lot of time there. she was not particularly well-liked in the state and people did not show up. on election day, our polls show her up a bit. hadthen on election day you something like 75,000 people show up at the polls who did not vote for any presidential candidate and when looking at a .2%, thatmichigan of 75,000 did not vote for a president was more than enough to throw it for trump who had more ent