GREEN BAY, Wis. – Donald Trump returned to Wisconsin for the first time in nearly two years on Tuesday night, relaunching himself on the battlefield with misleading claims about the 2020 election.
“You know that we won this state. We won this state a lot. Turns out we won it,” Trump told a crowd at a rally here.
Trump Won Wisconsin in 2016; He did not win in 2020. Voter turnout in 2020 was higher than four years earlier, so Trump won more votes than in 2016 — but Over 20,000 votes Shorter than Joe Biden admits.
On Monday, Trump also spread the lie in an interview with Milwaukee-based conservative talk radio host Dan O’Donnell.
“We actually did better than the first time,” he said. “As you know, we won Wisconsin for the first time. We did better the second time, but I guess it was too late. They found many errors. After the injustice was discovered, people said, “Well, he really won.”
O’Donnell did not push the suit.
Trump’s campaign declined to comment further.
A number of Republican Party officials and other candidates have expressed a desire to move past claims that the 2020 election was rigged, even as Trump continues to push conspiracy theories.
Wisconsin has played a central role in Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election. Two lawyers working for Trump hatched a plan to falsify paperwork in Wisconsin, saying he won the state for fraudulent voters. reached More than three years after the 2020 elections. This strategy was repeated in other major battlegrounds.
While Trump continued to bring up past elections again, senior allies tried to change the subject and look at November differently than in past elections.
Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump, who was recently named co-chair of the Republican National Committee, told NBC News that she believes Republicans will leave 2020 “in the past.”
“I think we’re past that. I think this is in the past,” he said last month when asked if it was the RNC’s position that the 2020 election should not be decided fairly. “The past is the past and unfortunately we’ve had to learn some hard lessons in 2020.”
The Green Bay rally underscored that message has yet to get through to some of Trump’s most dense core voters.
About 90 minutes before Trump took the stage, Mike Lindell, the founder of MyPillow, one of the most prominent proponents of the false idea that the 2020 election was rigged, fired up the crowd again by claiming that both Pennsylvania and Wisconsin were misjudged.
“We all know what happened in Wisconsin in the 2020 election,” he said.
The crowd greeted him with loud applause.