On Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris will rally voters in Madison, Wisconsin – her first visit to Madison and fourth visit to Wisconsin since announcing her presidential campaign.
The visit comes after a week when the Harris-Walz campaign announced the opening of its 50th coordinated campaign office in Wisconsin, right next to UW-Madison campus. The Wisconsin Democratic Coordinated Campaign now holds offices in 43 counties across the state and boasts more than 250 full-time staff.
Meanwhile, Trump’s campaign is far behind in Wisconsin. They recently would only confirm they have “more than 20 staffers” – we have more than 250. They are not reaching out to the key Dane County voters needed to win in November.
A Winning Campaign Capturing Momentum On the Ground
We’re leveraging this impressive campaign office, staff, and volunteer infrastructure to reach voters who we need to win – including with over 16,000 new volunteers completing a shift for the first time ever with Wisconsin Democrats and knocking over 500,000 doors across Wisconsin since the Harris campaign launched.
Voters across Dane County are motivated by the clear choice between Vice President Harris and Donald Trump on reproductive freedom, which is why we’ve brought surrogates like reproductive rights advocate Hadley Duvall recently to Madison to share her story. We’re reminding voters of the threat of Trump’s Project 2025 agenda that would give him unprecedented power to control their daily lives, ban abortion nationwide, and raise taxes on typical middle-class families by nearly $4,000 a year – including by organizing Project 2025 information sessions, highlighting the extremism of Project 2025 on campuses to motivate students, and on the airwaves with ads.
Turning Dane County Out
Dane County is the fastest-growing county in the state, and Democratic margins increased from 2020 to 2022, and then above that for the pivotal state Supreme Court race in 2023. Last month, Madison recorded the highest turnout for a fall primary election in at least 40 years. This growth is thanks in large part to the impressive organizing efforts of the Wisconsin Democratic Coordinated Campaign – the team that will power Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and Democrats up and down the ballot to victory this November.
As part of our efforts to engage student voters in Madison, we have a coordinated campaign campus organizer dedicated to organizing at UW-Madison, as well as Madison Area Technical College, which as of this year has its first-ever College Democrats chapter.
Bottom Line: Democrats are all-in on Dane County, highlighting how Trump’s Project 2025 agenda would rip away fundamental freedoms, raise costs, and take us backward. Having the Vice President here will help us leverage our massive campaign infrastructure – which now includes 50 coordinated campaign offices – to drive up the vote score here in Dane County.
