A wild card in the final week of same-day voter registration elections in swing-state Wisconsin

Watertown, Wis. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are leaving no stone unturned in their final week of campaigning in Wisconsin, where historically close margins of less than 1% have decided. Four of the last six presidential elections,

A look at campaign events for the week reveals the state of play for the swing state for the week through November 5, and indicates that both camps are looking to play to their strengths and address their weaknesses in a final effort. Will try to reduce.

As early voting continues to skyrocket Across the state, both campaigns are trying to narrow their margins in party strongholds and turn out undecided and low-propensity voters in key counties with events and surrogates aimed at winning Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes.

Historic turnout for Biden in Dane County in 2020 gave him 52.8% of the vote there, and 35,000 more votes than Hillary Clinton received in 2016. The example of the President there has made this county the focal point of Kamala Harris’s comeback. The voting effort ramps up this week, as the VP heads to the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Wednesday to make his case for college students in the deep blue bastion.

Wisconsin’s same-day voter registration means universities are fertile ground for the Harris campaign to capitalize on the youth vote until the last minute on Nov. 5.

Despite Democratic gains in Dane County, Trump’s campaign is refusing to concede that area. Former President held a rally In a rural part of the county earlier this month, former Republican Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson advised him to increase narrow margins there and in Milwaukee County.

This week he is sending surrogates Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard — both former Democrats — to narrow his margin of defeat in the liberal stronghold of Madison.

On Monday, Harris running mate Tim Walz visited counties where Trump’s narrowing margin of victory would benefit the Harris campaign, such as Manitowoc in Brown County and the city of Waukesha in Waukesha County.

Trump’s margin of victory in Waukesha County was 28.1 points in 2016, but dropped to 20.8 points in 2020 — a decline that the Harris campaign certainly hopes to capitalize on.

The former president will make a play in Brown County’s red zone on Wednesday, where he will campaign with former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre in the team’s designated city. He will try to garner more support there after winning the county by 7.2 points in 2020.

Trump will return to the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee on Friday in hopes of closing Biden’s 40-point margin of victory in the 2020 race in Milwaukee County.

First ladies Jill Biden and Gwen Walz canvassed teacher votes at an Educators for Harris event in La Crosse on Monday, while the Trump campaign sent Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) to the western Wisconsin city of Eau Claire to whip votes. ,

Biden won Eau Claire and La Crosse counties in 2020 by 10.8 and 13.5 points, respectively.

On Monday, Trump’s running mate Senator JD Vance will hold events in Racine County to increase his 4-point victory margin from 2020, and later in a mostly red marathon to solidify his 18-point lead from the last cycle. Will go to the county.

As election night returns, all eyes will be on these final battlegrounds in Wisconsin.

The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but Jacob Fischer, Team Trump’s Wisconsin communications director, told The Post that Republicans will “leave no stone unturned” in the battleground state as they head toward Nov. 5.

“Team Trump has performed across the state, from red counties like Waukesha to blue areas like Milwaukee and Eau Claire. “Unlike Kamala Harris’s dangerous liberal agenda, President Trump is focused on the kitchen issues – the ones that matter most to Wisconsinites,” he said.

“Our message is clear: What Kamala Harris broke; President Trump will fix it.