In his case for Michels, praised Michels Corp.'s work building tunnels and pipelines in complicated projects. Trump told the crowd to tie their discontent with the Wisconsin Elections Commission to Kleefisch, who was lieutenant governor when Republican lawmakers and Walker passed legislation to create the commission in 2015. Michels has split time in recent years between his home in Waukesha County and a mansion outside of New York City. It’s clear that Tim Michels’ campaign is desperate and can’t be trusted.” "Perhaps that’s acceptable in Connecticut, but the people of Wisconsin expect better. "First Tim Michels dragged Rebecca’s daughter into this race for an endorsement, and now he’s personally attacking her husband," said Kleefisch campaign spokesman Alec Zimmerman, referring to a meeting between Trump and Michels during which Trump said he was not happy about a tweet showing Kleefisch's daughter attending homecoming dance with the son of Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Brian Hagedorn, who was a swing vote in a number of lawsuits Trump pushed to overturn his election loss. "Kleefisch complains about lobbyists but her husband is one of the biggest lobbyists in Madison," Trump said, referring to Kleefisch's husband, Joel Kleefisch, a lobbyist and former state lawmaker, and echoing a criticism of Kleefisch that Michels leveled earlier in the rally. More: Five takeaways from Friday’s Trump-Michels rally in Waukesha
But Trump told the suburban Milwaukee crowd Kleefisch was leading a "campaign of falsehoods" and was a "handpicked candidate of the failed establishment." Scott Walker landed before Trump was elected president in 2016. The rally was held in an area of the state that was a key ingredient to victories Kleefisch and former Gov. Though his mission was to criticize Kleefisch and promote Michels, Trump leveled his strongest condemnation at Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, who has repeatedly refused Trump’s calls to overturn election results, and revealed to the crowd that the former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice Vos hired to review the 2020 election has endorsed Vos' primary opponent. More: Donald Trump returns to Wisconsin trying to leave his mark on the Republican gubernatorial primary
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