GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – Ahead of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s visit to Green Bay Monday, Democrats in Wisconsin are looking for members of Trump’s party to denounce him and withdraw their endorsement.
“We have seen over the last year how dark his soul is, now we’re seeing just how dangerous he is as a man and certainly on the ballot as a potential president and commander-in-chief,” says U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin). “Too many of our Republican leaders in this country are failing a moral test.”
Baldwin, along with Outagamie County Executive and Democratic candidate in Wisconsin’s 8th Congressional District Thomas Nelson and Nancy Nusbaum with Women for Hillary, stood together running down the list of comments Trump has made which they believe should disqualify him from being president.
Nelson specifically called out his GOP opponent, Mike Gallagher, for largely being silent on the issue of Trump. It’s an issue, Nelson feels, that’s the most important in the Northeast Wisconsin race aside from social security.
“His continued support for Trump shows that Mike Gallagher lacks the moral courage to do the right thing,” Nelson says. “If he lacks the courage to put our country before politics, how will he ever have the courage to fight for the 8th Congressional District?”
“This election is being rigged by the media pushing false and unsubstantiated charges, and outright lies, in order to elect Crooked Hillary!” Trump said in one Twitter post. He reiterated similar claims at a later rally in Bangor, Maine.
“It looks to me like a rigged election,” Trump said in New Hampshire. “The election is being rigged by corrupt media pushing completely false allegations and outright lies in an effort to elect her president.”
Gallagher’s campaign has refused several requests for an interview, but in a statement last week, the candidate said:
“I denounce Donald Trump’s offensive and reprehensible comments and he alone will have to bear the consequences of his actions. And like many ordinary Wisconsinites here in the 8th District, I find myself disgusted with the state of American politics. But for me, Hillary Clinton failed the commander-in-chief test the night of September 11, 2012. That night I was on duty in the National Counterterrorism Center when the first reports started coming in from Benghazi, Libya. As an active duty Marine, all night I was tracking reports of my brothers 5,000 miles away fighting for their lives while no one came to their help. Secretary Clinton then lied to the American people and the families of the fallen. This eliminates her from consideration for President.
And unlike my opponent Thomas Nelson, I’m not running to serve the President or career politicians in Congress. I’m running to serve the people of the 8th District and to honor the sacred oath I took to support and defend the Constitution ten years ago when I joined the U.S. Marine Corps. That means restoring what our Founders intended a key role of Congress to be: a check and balance on the power of the Presidency.“
Meantime, Trump’s campaign announced Monday morning that several Wisconsin Republicans would appear at the rally. They include Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau), and U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI). Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke is also scheduled to appear.
Trump will speak at the KI Convention Center at 6 p.m. The doors open at 3 p.m.
