Republican Donald Trump, who has stressed law and order in his presidential campaign, will hold an event with veterans and law enforcement in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, visiting days after the city was hit by unrest over a police-involved shooting. The rally and townhall had been planned before unrest broke out in the city on Saturday night.
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Marquette Law School Poll director Charles Franklin says it’s an investment of the campaign’s most valuable commodity – the candidate’s time. “We have a case where good people are out there trying to get people to sort of calm down and they’re not calming down and we have our police who do a phenomenal job”. I mean our country is really going down. “That’s what the narrative is”, Trump told Fox News.
Police have said the man refused to drop his gun but have not said it was pointed at the officer.
“Don’t forget, when I lost Wisconsin, it was over for Trump”, he said. “I have the biggest crowds – you’re there, you see them, nobody’s ever had crowds like this they say”. A new poll by NBC News/SurveyMonkey four-way general election match-up found Hillary Clinton leading with 43%, followed by Trump at 37%, Libertarian Gary Johnson at 11% and Green Party candidate Jill Stein at 4%. Trump is expected to speak around 8:30 p.m. EDT at the Ziegler Building at the Washington County Fair Park in West Bend, Wisconsin.
Gov. Scott Walker and other top Republicans won’t be attending Trump’s public appearance in West Bend.
Walker implored the GOP nominee to keep the focus on setting up a contrast between himself and Clinton.
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“It is unnerving to the body politic and to one’s political nervous system the rhetoric, the bombastic approach that Donald Trump continues to demonstrate”, she said. “I don’t want to pivot”.
