The former president’s campaign contends that his words about the host city of the Republican National Convention were misreported.
Democrats are seizing on a report — denied by Donald Trump — that the former president insulted Milwaukee as a “horrible city” during a closed-to-the-press meeting Thursday with House Republicans on Capitol Hill.
The report by Punchbowl News was disputed by multiple GOP lawmakers in attendance, though they offered conflicting accounts of what Trump was talking about. Trump’s campaign also pushed back on Thursday, saying that the former president was referring to “how terrible crime and voter fraud are.”
Wisconsin was among the states where Trump and his allies focused their efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Democrats jumped at the opportunity to bash Trump for his alleged remarks about Milwaukee, which will not only host the Republican National Convention next month but is also the largest city in Wisconsin, a critical battleground state in Trump’s likely November rematch against President Biden.
“I happen to love Milwaukee,” Biden said in a social media post Thursday, sharing a photo of him posing with the Milwaukee Bucks at the White House in 2021.
Biden’s reelection campaign later announced that it is selling a T-shirt that reads, “(NOT) a Horrible City,” on top of a graphic of Wisconsin with Milwaukee identified.
