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Wisconsin

Trump and Biden each are making a play for the 10 electoral votes in

Wisconsin

, where Trump four years ago was the first Republican presidential candidate to win the state since 1984.


Many voters in the state also are uncertain about the candidates until the last-moment, making it difficult to gauge the outcome. According to exit polls, 14 percent of Wisconsin voters had made their choice in the final week of the elections in 2016 with last-minute decision-makers picking Trump over Hillary Clinton by a two-to-one margin.



The state also became a flashpoint in the country's reckoning over race and policing after the shooting in August of Jacob Blake, an African-American, by a white police officer in the city of Kenosha.

After Black voter participation in Wisconsin sank in 2016 compared with previous elections, Biden's campaign is betting that energized Democratic-leaning Black voters this year will help overcome Trump's less than-1-percentage-point margin of victory over Clinton there.

Biden has an advantage over Trump in most recent Wisconsin opinion polls.

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