WAUKESHA, Wis. -- The moment President Donald Trump was acquitted in the Senate on Wednesday, Judy Ryan was licking a blueberry ice cream cone in the Brookfield Square shopping mall and feeling happy.Ryan, 74, a retired factory worker, had followed the impeachment trial almost every day. The more Democrats
WAUKESHA, Wis. — The moment President Donald Trump was acquitted in the Senate on Wednesday, Judy Ryan was licking a blueberry ice cream cone in the Brookfield Square shopping mall and feeling happy.
Yard signs have been flying off the shelves in the county Republican Party’s headquarters in a strip mall near a vegan food supply store. More than 150 people showed up for a State of the Union watch party Tuesday night, applauding and cheering in a giant hall. And volunteers like Diane Schlosser, a 63-year-old homemaker, have been walking in off the street to sign up.
Story continuesDemographically, Wisconsin is more like Ohio and Missouri — whiter, older and less educated than the national average, and that has tended to tilt the advantage to Republicans, said David Wasserman, an editor at the Cook Political Report. But in about two dozen interviews over three days, many Republicans said that while they voted for Trump reluctantly in 2016, they no longer felt hesitant. They pointed to the booming economy, Trump’s judicial appointments and the conservative stances he has adopted on cultural issues. They also brought up the actions of Democrats.
Robert Dohnal, a longtime conservative activist in Wisconsin, compared impeachment to sports: “It’s like if your team in football is getting bad calls from the referees and you are just getting madder and madder. It puts more fight in the belly.” “This really pulled a lot of Republicans off the fence,” Wigderson said of moderates. “Now it’s, ‘You’ve gone too far and we are going to defend this guy to the end.’”
“I was like, ‘Come on, this is ridiculous, he’s not smart enough to be able to collude with another country!’” he said. “The Democrats have gone so far from reality, and they are coming across as so unreasonable, that it makes it look like they are out to get him.”
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