Source:CNN interviewing Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson about Donald Trump.

“CNN’s Laura Coates speaks with Milwaukee, WI, mayor Cavalier Johnson about former President Donald Trump’s comments calling the Republican National Convention host city “horrible.”

From CNN

“Trump’s win in Wisconsin by less than a percentage point broke the streak for Democratic presidential nominees — they had won the seven elections before 2016. Close races are typical in the Badger State. Al Gore and John Kerry both won by less than half a point. See 2020 primary results”

From CNN

Assuming Donald Trump loses in November, (which is The New Democrat’s best guess) he should consider writing a book (hopefully from a Federal prison) about how not to run for President of the United States. Hell, he could start a new reality TV show starring the worst, possible, presidential, major party, nominees, for President of the United States. With the winner being the worst, possible, major, party nominee, for President of the United States. ,

That link from CNN is important because Donald Trump got 29% of the vote in Milwaukee in 2020, compared with 69% for Joe Biden in that same election. And before you say 29% is not much, he can’t win Wisconsin without at least a solid minority of the vote from the cities in that state.

Milwaukee is 560,000 people, in a metro area of 1,500,000 people. Madison is 200,000, Green Bay, 150,000 people. Wisconsin is 5,600,000 people, with a 1/4 of that state living in Milwaukee. He can’t lose 80-90% of the urban, suburban, college town vote in that state, and just expect to be able to make up those votes in MAGA Farmville.

As far as whether or not Donald Trump called Milwaukee a horrible city or not: none of his allies are denying it. You are at best getting non-denial, denials, from people like Speaker Mike Johnson, who was in the meeting with House Republicans that Mr. Trump apparently made these comments and he claims he didn’t hear him say that. But he didn’t say that Trump didn’t say it. Which is important. Perhaps the Speaker fell asleep after hearing about how much Donald Trump’s life sucks. And when he got to the comments about Milwaukee, that’s when the Speaker drifted off.