GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – It’s an election year unlike any other, especially for Thomas Kitchen, 6th congressional district delegate for the Democratic National Convention.
“This is a far different campaign than we’ve witnessed before.”
Kitchen has attended 10 Democratic National Conventions. He’ll have to miss the first one Wisconsin has ever been picked to host.
“The delegation was disappointed. That it was Milwaukee and able to get to attend a convention in our home state.”
Joe Biden will accept the nomination at his home in Delaware, 845 miles away from Milwaukee.
Kitchen tells FOX 11…he gets it.
“Obviously we knew that this convention was under a number of constraints because of COVID.”
But, Wisconsin Republicans don’t. Brown County party chair James Fitzgerald tells FOX 11 Biden’s absence is a big deal.
“2016. Hillary elected not to come to Wisconsin and now you’re seeing it be repeated by the democrats again this presidential go around.”
Wisconsin Democrats are focused on what they can do virtually. Kitchen says they haven’t totally given up on the in-person campaign trail.
“It’s all going to be based on organization. Obviously, it’s going to be different with COVID, but I know we’re out there and working hard.”
And they’re not alone in fighting to win Wisconsin; a crucial swing state for 2020.
“We have high energized individuals out there working day in and day out to get our president re-elected,” said Fitzgerald.
“We lost it in the last election and want to get it back and I think we’re on our way to doing that,” said Kitchen.
President Trump carried Wisconsin by less than 30,000 votes in 2016.
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