the presidential candidates know they likely need to win Wisconsin in order to win the White House in November so they continue to focus on the badger state former president Donald Trump came to Wisconsin tonight holding a town hall in Lacrosse political reporter Dariel far has you covered on his message and the reaction from voters former president Donald Trump's visit to Wisconsin comes after his running mate Ohio Senator JD Vance was in depri yesterday as the campaign attempts to ramp up visits to a critical Battleground State likely to decide this year's presidential election the Trump campaign focusing its efforts on recapturing States the former president won in 2016 and narly lost in 2020 tulsey gabard was the moderator for tonight's discussion a former Democratic United States Representative turned independent after ending her presidential bid for the White House in 2020 Trump appointed gabard and Robert F Kennedy to his transition team responsible for advising the former president on personnel and policies if Trump is elected to ass second term just days after Kennedy suspending his campaign and endorsing Trump I love Robert Kennedy too I think they together are going to make a difference and change our country reproductive health and IVF access was the first issue discussed during the campaign's town hall event tonight Trump stating he would preserve access to IVF treatments and government should cover the cost for people that are using IVF which is fertilization we are the government is going to pay for it or we're going to get or mandate your insurance company to pay for it Trump also changing his stance on abortion restrictions in recent weeks as Republicans have continued to face criticism for the overturning of roie Wade I don't think you could have a presidential candidate former president come out stronger for an issue like IVF than he did today the Republican party is the party of the family and a lot of people think that you have to have children to complete that family the former president made repeated attacks on the Harris walls campaign on the issues of immigration and the economy National polling released earlier today shows vice president Kamala Harris taking a 48 to 47% lead over Trump but there's still a little over two months left on the campaign Trail and a highly anticipated debate on September 10th that could change things ahead of November reporting in Lacrosse Dariel far 27 news