Officials with President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign have contacted Mankato police about an upcoming visit, though no details were available about a stop that USA Today reported will be Monday.
“Security people (for the Trump campaign) are meeting with Public Safety people in trying to plan the event,” Mankato City Manager Pat Hentges said Thursday. “We don’t have any details we can share with the public.”
USA Today reported that Trump next week plans to visit four states that could go a long way toward deciding the fall race between him and Democrat Joe Biden: Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Arizona. The campaign swings coincide with the beginning of the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee. The convention will be mostly virtual after Biden decided not to travel to Milwaukee to accept the nomination in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
USA Today said Trump’s Minnesota stop would be in Mankato on Monday, when he would also visit Wisconsin.
So far neither the state GOP or Trump’s Minnesota campaign have released any information.
In Wisconsin, the Associated Press says that Trump will visit Oshkosh for a Monday rally.
Gov. Tony Evers said Thursday that he expects Trump and his entourage to wear masks indoors and social distance.
Evers, a Democrat, issued a statewide mask mandate in July to combat rising coronavirus infections. Nearly 70% of respondents in a Marquette University Law School poll released Tuesday agreed that masks should be required in all public places, though Democrats were more supportive of the mandate than Republicans.
Trump had been reluctant to wear a mask for months but has shifted his stance over the last few weeks in the face of rising infections across the country and is now encouraging their use if people can’t socially distance.
The governor told reporters during a teleconference on Thursday that he expects Trump and others to wear masks Monday when they’re inside buildings and stay 6 feet apart.
“That’s our expectation as a state,” Evers said. “We can’t afford for these events to make it more difficult for us to prevent the virus from being transmitted in the state of Wisconsin.”
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