GREEN BAY, Wisc., (SPECTRUM NEWS) –– Several voters from both major parties in three Wisconsin counties say the Republican National Convention has done nothing to sway their vote away from their first choices.
Jerry Murphy says he voted for President Donald Trump in 2016, and plans to do the same in November.
He lives in Outagamie County, one of Wisconsin’s three counties that make up the BOW counties. The other two being Brown County and Winnebago County.
The area is considered one of the most purple in Wisconsin. Voters in the BOW counties have elected Republican and Democratic judges since voting for then-candidate Trump in 2016.
Murphy says the overall theme during the RNC has been pleasant.
“The overall tone has been very uplifting and positive,” he says.
His younger brother is Wisconsin 56th Assembly District Representative Dave Murphy, (R).
“It’s been a convention that talks a lot about opportunity,” says aid Rep. Murphy. “I thought the Democratic Convention was very stark, and very cold, and very bleak.”
Brown County Democrat Loren Prince says he’s found the RNC to be unsettling at times.
“Some of the speakers being excessively loud or yelling or if they’re trying to portray some kind of fear element here, that we need to be scared if President Trump is not re-elected,” Prince says.
He says parts of the Democratic National Convention has similar tones. He doesn’t like it.
Prince says the RNC isn't making him switch his vote away from former Vice President Joe Biden. He says he did enjoy some of First Lady Melania Trump’s RNC speech.
“It’s good to hear her be empathetic to the plight of the people suffering through the pandemic,” he says. “I just wish you would hear that empathy from the President himself.”
Juanita Lux is a Republican from Winnebago County. She's voting for President Trump again in November. She says she has enjoyed several of the speakers so far.
“I really was impressed with Tim Scott,“ she says, “[He] was saying how this was a wonderful land of opportunity.
Lux says the message by Scott, a Republican US Senator from South Carolina, really stuck out to her. So did a speech speaking out against abortion.
Nate Gustafson is also a Republican from Winnebago County. He’s 25 and says the messages coming out of the RNC are resonating with fellow millennials.
“It’s good to see the youth are starting to catch on to what’s going on,” Gustafson says.
Members of both parties say they’d like to hear what President Trump’s plans are for the next four years should he win re-election. Jerry Murphy says he hopes to hear the President address that during his Thursday night speech.