Walworth County Democrats hope for 'blue wave' in red county

They hope for a “blue wave” in November, but Democrats in deeply red Walworth County know they’re swimming upstream.

No Democratic candidate for president has won in Walworth County since at least 1960. It was one of three Wisconsin counties that swung for Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964, and President Donald Trump swept Hillary Clinton by 20 percentage points in 2016.

It’s one of the reddest counties in Wisconsin, but Walworth County Democrats believe local support is spreading.

Membership has doubled in the last two years, the party says. It recently opened its second office in Whitewater, and volunteers are rolling out an aggressive door-knocking campaign they hope will lift turnout in a year when Democratic enthusiasm is growing nationally.

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