{"id":2360589,"date":"2024-10-28T14:32:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T18:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-and-harris-using-wisconsin-sports-figures-to-boost-their-campaigns-in-the-state-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-28T14:35:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T18:35:18","slug":"trump-and-harris-using-wisconsin-sports-figures-to-boost-their-campaigns-in-the-state-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-and-harris-using-wisconsin-sports-figures-to-boost-their-campaigns-in-the-state-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and Harris using Wisconsin sports figures to boost their campaigns in the state &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-and-harris-using-wisconsin-sports-figures-to-boost-their-campaigns-in-the-state-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2360589&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In Wisconsin, both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are utilizing local <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/guilty-on-all-charges-the-sports-world-reacts-to-the-derek-chauvin-verdict\/\" title=\"Guilty On All Charges: The Sports World Reacts To The Derek Chauvin Verdict\">sports figures<\/a> to enhance their campaign efforts in \u200bthe lead-up to the election. This strategy is \u2063unique \u2064as it has not been fully embraced in \u2063other states. Trump&#8217;s campaign features former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett\u200d Favre, who is known for his \u2064support of\u200b Trump. \u200dFavre will join Trump at a rally in Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin. On the other \u2064hand, Harris is aligning with Milwaukee Bucks head coach Doc Rivers, who \u200cwas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-president-trump-gives-pardons-to-73-individuals-and-commutes-another-70-sentences-steve-bannon-is-included\/\" title=\"BREAKING: President Trump Gives Pardons to 73 Individuals and Commutes Another 70 Sentences \u2013 Steve Bannon Is Included\">recently appointed<\/a>\u200d co-chair of &#8220;Athletes for Harris.&#8221; Rivers will campaign in Wisconsin, emphasizing \u200bTrump&#8217;s\u2062 negative remarks about Milwaukee and critiquing his previous commitments, such as the Foxconn deal.\u200b Both campaigns are attempting to leverage the popularity of Wisconsin&#8217;s sports figures to\u200d bolster their appeal to voters in the state.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump and Harris using Wisconsin sports figures to boost their campaigns in the state<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1844617\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Both Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Kamala Harris<\/a> and former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> are leaning into Wisconsin&rsquo;s beloved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"sports teams\">sports teams<\/a> in the hope that their support will boost their campaigns.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Both campaigns are using well-known sports figures from <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/wisconsin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Wisconsin<\/a>-based teams to boost them in a move neither campaign has fully tried in other states. Both Trump and Harris are set to campaign in Wisconsin on this week.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is set to campaign with former Green Bay Packers quarterback <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/10\/25\/packers-legend-brett-favre-to-join-donald-trump-in-green-bay\/75852922007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Brett Favre<\/a> at a rally in the city suburb of Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin, on Wednesday. Favre played in the NFL for 20 years, mostly with the Packers, where he led the team to 11 playoff runs and two Super Bowl appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Favre has voiced his support for the former president in recent years, similarly endorsing him in 2020. He and Trump went golfing together in 2022 at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrettFavre?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BrettFavre<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MqqlFnKjSR\">https:\/\/t.co\/MqqlFnKjSR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamTrump\/status\/1322186380122984448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you&rsquo;re born in the USA or an American citizen and you put other countries above us, then that&rsquo;s unpatriotic. That&rsquo;s it. <br \/>&#127482;&#127480;&#127482;&#127480;&#127482;&#127480;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brett Favre (@BrettFavre) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrettFavre\/status\/1835787101776048534?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p>Favre recently announced he was diagnosed with Parkinson&rsquo;s disease at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/packers\/2024\/09\/24\/why-brett-favre-was-testifying-before-congress-about-welfare-money\/75362298007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">congressional committee meeting<\/a> focused on the misuse of federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds in Mississippi. He is connected with the Mississippi welfare scandal involving the misappropriation of roughly $77 million in state funds, but Favre has not been criminally charged and denies any wrongdoing. Trump&rsquo;s former attorney, Eric Herschmann, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/10\/03\/us\/brett-favre-attorney-trump\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">represented<\/a> him in the civil suit.<\/p>\n<p>The Harris campaign will campaign with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/basketball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Milwaukee Bucks\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> head coach Doc Rivers, an NBA All-Star who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/nba-75-top-15-coaches-league-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">named<\/a> one of the top 15 coaches in the league&rsquo;s history. Rivers was named co-chair of &ldquo;Athletes for Harris&rdquo; alongside NBA legend Magic Johnson. He recently <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs58.com\/news\/second-gentleman-doug-emhoff-doc-rivers-rally-for-harris-on-milwaukees-north-side\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">campaigned<\/a> with second gentleman Doug Emhoff for Harris in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>Rivers is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/10\/27\/milwaukee-bucks-coach-doc-rivers-voices-new-ad-for-kamala-harris\/75878872007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">featured<\/a> in a new ad that will play in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/state\/3109389\/milwaukees-mayor-wisconsin-voters-their-vote-counts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Milwaukee TV market<\/a> and highlight Trump&rsquo;s comments calling Milwaukee a &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-milwaukee-horrible-city-gop-convention-niomination-604fe33acb5606e9db1cbf3f966507e3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">horrible<\/a>&rdquo; city, the Harris campaign announced Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The ad will also highlight the &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/steve-scalise-cautions-that-bidens-failure-to-address-the-port-strike-will-exacerbate-economic-challenges-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Steve Scalise cautions that Biden&#039;s failure to address the port strike will exacerbate economic challenges. - Washington Examiner\">empty promises&#038;rdquo<\/a>; of Trump&rsquo;s Foxconn deal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President Donald Trump participates in a Foxconn groundbreaking ceremony on June 28, 2018, in Mt. Pleasant, Wisconsin. (AP Photo\/Evan Vucci)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;In this town, we&rsquo;ve seen our share of hard times, heard our share of big promises,&rdquo; Rivers, who is not seen in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rKCLDcMH7tA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">ad<\/a>, said in a voiceover. &ldquo;But empty promises don&rsquo;t build cities. We do &mdash; with grit, sweat, and cold beer.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Foxconn was a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">contracted manufacturing facility set<\/a> to be built 30 miles south of Milwaukee, and Wisconsin was set to provide the firm with nearly $3 billion in tax credits if it created 13,000 jobs at the factory. But the deal never came to fruition as the plant was never built. At the Democratic National Convention, an ad also played to hit Trump over his administration&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/08\/21\/democrats-take-a-dig-at-foxconn-deal-supported-by-trump-at-dnc\/74897657007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">unfulfilled promises <\/a>of Foxconn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden recently visited the deserted site to announce that Microsoft would take over the property, painting the Microsoft development as a &ldquo;comeback story&rdquo; playing out across Wisconsin and the nation and calling Trump&rsquo;s Foxconn deal &ldquo;a con.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Harris will hold a &ldquo;Get out the Vote&rdquo; rally in Madison, Wisconsin, on Wednesday on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus featuring musical artists Gracie Abrams and Mumford and Sons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1844617\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1844617\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump and Harris enlist Wisconsin sports stars to enhance campaigns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2910,"featured_media":2360591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/trump-harris-2024-election-14-days-away.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[8954,4021,43877,3634,4124],"class_list":["post-2360589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-campaigns","tag-harris","tag-sports-figures","tag-trump","tag-wisconsin"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/trump-harris-2024-election-14-days-away.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2360589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2360591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2360589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2360589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2360589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}