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Donald Trump Tells West Allis Audience He Expects to Win Wisconsin

LaToya Dennis
Trump addresses supporters at Nathan Hale high school in West Allis

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump is continuing to make his case in Wisconsin. On Sunday night, he spoke with hundreds of supporters at Nathan Hale High School in West Allis.

For more than an hour, he spoke about golf, foreign relations, making people proud and making America great again. He says if he’s elected president, the U.S. will win again.

“We’re going to win on trade, we’re going to win with the military, we’re going to knock out ISIS viciously and quickly. We’re going to win at every single level, we’re going to win again, we lose at everything. We lose at education, we lose at every single think we partake in. We don’t have victories anymore,” Trump said.

The latest polls have Trump trailing Texas Senator Ted Cruz, but Trump says Wisconsin reminds him of New Hampshire, a state he wasn’t supposed to win, but did. He told the crowd that this is a night they would remember.

“And more importantly, you’re going to remember Tuesday because you’re going to go out and vote, and we’re going to have an unbelievable resounding victory,” he said.

There are 42 delegates up for grabs here, 18 of them will go to the statewide winner. The other 24 will go the winner of each of the state’s congressional districts. While there are not enough delegates here to change the race numbers wise, some political scientists have speculated that if Trump loses Wisconsin, it could signal a loss in momentum.

Trump also took the opportunity to go after Gov. Scott Walker for not only the number of jobs lost here, but the number created.

As it has come to be expected at Trump events, a handful of protestors were escorted out. One man was ushered out after shouting, "The people of West Allis reject you."

Outside another Trump town hall held on Sunday at UW-Milwaukee, more protesters echoed him, as seen in this video taken by the Overpass Light Brigade.

LaToya was a reporter with WUWM from 2006 to 2021.
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