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Donald Trump Rallies In Racine, Wisconsin: Watch Live Stream
President Donald Trump is visiting Wisconsin days after he called Milwaukee a "horrible city."
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MILWAUKEE β Former President Donald Trump is set to rally with his supporters Tuesday in Racine, Wisconsin.
The visit marks his third to the state in 2024 and his first since being convicted by a New York jury on 34 counts in his "hush money" trial.
Trump's visit also comes just weeks before the start of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, which Trump recently called a "horrible city."
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Trump and his campaign surrogates β including Vivek Ramaswamy β will speak at Racine Festival Park starting at 3 p.m.
Watch a live stream below:
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President Joe Biden traveled to Racine last month to announce a $3.3 billion investment by Microsoft to build a new artificial intelligence (AI) data center in Racine.
"The data center will be built on the same land as a failed $10 billion investment from Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn six years ago, which left behind Wisconsin residents and workers," the White House said at the time.
"President Biden promised that unlike his predecessor, he wouldnβt leave communities like Racine behind."
In 2018, the Trump administration touted a $10 billion investment by Foxconn that would purportedly create 13,000 manufacturing jobs in Racine.
More than 100 homes and farms were bulldozed to make way for the manufacturing plant and more than $500 million in taxpayer dollars was invested to prepare the site.
But Foxconn abandoned plans to manufacture LCD screens in the state and created only a fraction of the promised jobs; fewer than 520 people, and spending $300 million, according to the Washington Post.
Reporting from the Associated Press was used in this story.
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