Battleground to watch: Wisconsin

The Dairyland state of Wisconsin could go either way. The smallest of the swinging mid-western states, it is 80% white and loves beer and cheese.

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00:00Running along the Great Lakes, Wisconsin is part of America's Midwest.

00:19The weather's great except for a couple of months in the winter where you hit the shovel

00:22every other day.

00:23The road's kind of like salt of the earth, nice and approachable I'd say.

00:26We have great sports teams, Green Bay Packers.

00:29I love outdoors.

00:31Not being in the mountains, but it's so beautiful.

00:34People think of it as just farmland and flat, but it's not, it's a beautiful state.

00:40Along with other Midwestern states, Michigan and Ohio, it's become a critical battleground

00:46in recent presidential elections.

00:51The smallest of the three by population, Wisconsin is home to nearly 6 million people.

00:59More than 80% of the population here is white, with around 8% Latino or Hispanic and 7% African

01:06American.

01:07Around 40% claim German ancestry.

01:12And that helps explain why Wisconsin is famous for beer.

01:15There's more than 250 breweries in this state.

01:18And if it's not beer, then it's milk.

01:24Wisconsin is also known as America's dairy land.

01:26It's the second largest producer of milk after California, the largest producer of

01:31cheese and makes a significant slab of the nation's butter.

01:36So passionate is Wisconsin about quality dairy that until 1967, the state banned the sale

01:41of margarine.

01:42To this day, it is illegal to use margarine in a restaurant unless the customer specifically

01:48requests it.

01:49Excuse me?

01:50I'll be voting for Kamala Harris because again, I believe in freedom and liberty.

01:54I just know when he was in office four years ago, personally, our life was a lot better.

02:00The four years under Trump was rough.

02:03I'd rather jump on his leg than vote for Kamala.

02:05Housing costs, things like that, are pretty important because I'm at that stage of life

02:09where I'd like to eventually buy a home.

02:11But the economy is actually quite good, despite what others might be saying, you know, to

02:15the contrary, but we have actually quite a good economy here in this country.

02:19Wisconsin is where the Republican Party was founded in 1854.

02:23Nowadays, it's one of the most notable battleground states, putting its 10 electoral college votes

02:28firmly in play.