Harris gives Democrats a jolt in a critical part of swing state Wisconsin

Associated Press

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris has put a charge in Wisconsin’s most powerful Democratic stronghold, Dane County, where enthusiasm and volunteer support for President Joe Biden had been slipping. Voters in the county’s famously liberal heart, Madison, point to what they describe as Harris’ more vocal attention to specific Democratic priorities in helping restore their enthusiasm in a place where the party must post overwhelming margins to carry the state. Those voters also cite Harris’ younger age and livelier style than Biden’s. Biden won 75% of the vote in the county in 2020 in beating Republican President Donald Trump by 181,000 votes there, while carrying the state by fewer than 21,000.