When former President Donald Trump takes the stage in Milwaukee during the Republican National Convention, he’ll be retu
rning to a city and a state that has been the subject of many of his false claims.
But the timing element is important here: The Milwaukee Election Commission said months before the election that they probably wouldn’t finish counting absentee ballots until the early morning hours. They requested an audit by the nonpartisan Legislative Audit Bureau, and Vos hired former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman to investigate the election.Looking back in our PolitiFact Wisconsin archives, Trump was right about one aspect of absentee voting in Wisconsin — at the time.Wisconsin is"is one of several states where you can change your early ballot if you think you've made a mistake.
After the Kyle Rittenhouse shootings, Evers increased National Guard troop numbers from 250 to 500. Evers also accepted federal troops from the Trump administration, after initially turning down federal help.You can bet that immigration will be a topic of discussion at the RNC. And Trump has made claims about"sanctuary cities" in Wisconsin that fell in the middle of the Truth-O-Meter.
There was a case in Dane County that matched that claim, but Trump’s team never provided specifics about cases in Milwaukee, and local officials did not have enough information to determine what he was referring to.his 2016 victory in Wisconsin was the first time a Republican had won the state since Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952. He also claimed Ronald Reagan didn’t win Wisconsin.
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