According to a survey by Napolitan News released on Thursday, Harris is up by Trump by just one percentage point (50 percent to 49 percent) among 788 likely voters in Wisconsin. Given the poll's margin of error of 3.5 percent, however, the candidates are considered to be in a statistical tie.
Some Republicans, most notably former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson, have encouraged Trump to come to the blue areas to counter Democrats’ margins.
The NYT/Siena College poll found that Harris received 48% support among likely voters in Michigan with Trump garnering 47%, while in Wisconsin Harris holds 49% support to Trump's 47%.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s name will remain on the state's presidential ballot, upholding a lower court's ruling that candidates can only be removed from the ballot if they die.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court rejected Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s efforts to remove his name from the state’s presidential ballot in a Friday ruling. Last week, the Supreme Court accepted Kennedy’s appeal against the Wisconsin Elections Commission,
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will be listed on Wisconsin voters' ballots after he tried to get courts to remove it.
When the elections clerk in Wisconsin’s heavily Democratic capital city of Madison announced on Monday that duplicate absentee ballots had mistakenly been sent to around 2,000 voters, it ignited concerns about election integrity from a Republican congressman and others on the right.
Former President Trump has been visiting crucial swing states ahead of the election.
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are essentially tied in the swing states of Michigan and Wisconsin, according to polls from the New York Times and Siena College published on Saturday.
Officials in Wisconsin have apologized after more than 2,000 voters in the state's capital city received duplicate absentee ballots in the mail. "This was a mistake," Madison city spokesperson Dylan Brogan said,
Wausau Mayor Doug Diny put on work gloves, donned a hard hat and used a dolly to cart away a drop box outside City Hall. The move is the latest example in swing state Wisconsin of the fight over whether communities will allow absentee ballot drop boxes.