Republicans have dominated elections in rural Wisconsin. Democrats see an opening.

For all the millions of dollars being spent on this year’s presidential campaign, for all the thousands of hours of staff and campaign work, for all the TV commercials and digital ads, campaign rallies and letters to the editor, Democrats are not going to win in Taylor County.

They know this. In this rural part of north central Wisconsin, their ambitions are more modest than that.

“If we could get the Democratic vote to 35 percent, it would be huge,” said Jim Davis, co-chair of the Taylor County Democratic Party.

The fact that barely more than one-third of the vote is considered an aspirational goal is a sign of just how far rural areas have swung toward Republicans since the 2010s. But it is also true that in some parts of the state, 35 percent for Democrats would likely mean that presidential nominee Kamala Harris is having an excellent election night.




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