STURGEON BAY, Wis. —  With just days left before Tuesday's presidential election, the Democratic Party of Door County is primarily focused on getting voters to the polls.

“We’ve worked for the last six months to get ready for this two-week period when it really is no longer a matter of trying to convince people. It’s a matter of making sure they vote,” Allin Walker, the Democratic Party of Door County's treasurer, said. “We have identified in Door County enough voters to absolutely win if they go vote.”

There’s a similar push from the county’s Republicans.

What You Need To Know

  • Republican and Democratic parties in Door County are focused on getting voters to the polls Tuesday

  • Door County has correctly backed the winning president for more than two decades. That includes former President Donald Trump in 2016 and President Joe Biden in 2020

  • Efforts to get voters to the polls are expected to run into Election Day on Tuesday

 
“We’re knocking on doors, we’re making phone calls. We’re doing all of the above,” Stephanie Soucek, the chairwoman of the Republican Party of Door County, said. “We know that talking person to person is the most effective, so besides just knocking on doors and making calls, I’m encouraging people to reach out to their networks and talk to those people who are on the fence and maybe need a little extra encouragement.”

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Door County has correctly backed the winning president for more than two decades. That includes former President Donald Trump in 2016 and President Joe Biden in 2020.

That’s put the county in the national and international media spotlight. Soucek was interviewed by a TV crew from Czech Television on Thursday.

“We’re one of the swing states where it’s the closest. Our county is one of the closer elections. We’ve always been close,” she said. “It’s just makes everything a range of emotions from excitement and nervousness and anything you can think of.”

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 The list of media outlets covering the county in recent weeks includes 60 Minutes.

“South Africa. Japan. Korea. Belgium. Denmark. England was here over the weekend,” Walker said. “It’s really a bizarre thing, this status as a bellwether county — one of seven across the nation — that’s drawn people to see what’s going on.”

In the final days of the campaign, both sides said those in-person connections with potential voters are vital.

“I’m still going to be on pins and needles on election night and on the edge of my seat waiting to see what happens,” Souk said. “I do feel pretty good going into Election Day.”

Walker said the party’s efforts will push into the late afternoon Tuesday.

“Probably until 5 p.m. At that point we will have done everything we can do, I think,” he said. 

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