Donald Trump has knocked down the “blue wall” Tuesday and turned Wisconsin red again.
The former president won the battleground Badger State’s 10 electoral votes, with Fox News and Decision Desk HQ projecting Trump the winner of the contentious presidential election.
Victory in Wisconsin arrived just as the calendar turned on Election Day and Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign carriage turned back into a pumpkin. With 92 percent of the vote in, Trump led Harris by nearly 3 percentage points, or nearly 153,000 votes, in the state. The lead was too much to overcome for the Democrat, even with the usual early-morning ballot dump in leftist-led Milwaukee still looming.
Trump’s victory in swing state Wisconsin followed on the heels of his win in another critical so-called “blue wall” state, Pennsylvania, with its coveted 19 electoral votes. He had already bagged swing states Georgia and North Carolina on his way to hitting the 270-electoral-vote threshold. Final vote tallies are awaited in western swing states Arizona and Nevada, but both were leaning red early Wednesday morning.
‘Wisconsin Was the Cornerstone’
The former president spoke to supporters just after 2 a.m. Wisconsin time, calling his victory and that of his fellow Republicans in Congress an “unprecedented mandate.” Republicans won back the Senate, and they appeared to have held control of the House.
“And now it’s going to reach a new level of importance because we’re going to help our country heal,” Trump said. “We have a country that needs help and it needs
