By james art 
First stop: La Crosse, Wisconsin, feeling the love on the eve of the election from Sen. JD Vance and Gov. Tim Waltz.
It’s a rare blue county on the state’s western front, and it turned out big for Joe Biden in 2020 with 56% of the vote.
This was Vance’s only stop on the Wisconsin battlefield.
So why would Vance close in La Crosse County? It is surrounded by rural red counties that could help boost the score for Donald Trump.
Second stop: Stevens Point in Portage County for Walz. Another blue district for Biden in 2020.
Watch: Inside the vice presidential candidate’s latest push to Wisconsin voters
Inside the vice presidential candidate’s latest push to Wisconsin voters
It was one of 14 blue counties that Biden won by less than three percentage points. Out of 40,000 votes, Biden won by 1,200 in Portage County. Wisconsin has 72 counties.
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That’s close for a state that was decided by less than 21,000 votes in 2020 and less than 25,000 votes for Trump in 2016.
Walz’s mission in central Wisconsin was to increase gains among Biden voters.
Third stop: Waltz ends his day in Milwaukee. The city and county are the biggest sources of votes for Democrats.
Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris both held rallies in Milwaukee on Friday night.
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Harris and Trump are making their final pitch to voters in Wisconsin
The city’s early voting is slightly behind the state’s pace of 46 percent, based on a total of 3.3 million voters in 2020.
Milwaukee saw 105,554 early votes, or about 43% of the 2020 voter turnout.
Find out where to vote, what’s on your ballot and more on TMJ4’s elections page here.
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