Har­ris and Walz trade fire with Trump run­ning mate Vance at duel­ing events in Blue Wall states bat­tle

EAU CLAIRE, WI — Speak­ing in front of a sea of sup­port­ers in rur­al Wis­con­sin, Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris on Wednes­day declared that “the path to the White House wins right through this state and with your help, we will win in November.“Wisconsin is part of the so-called blue wall of states — along with neigh­bor­ing Michi­gan as well as Penn­syl­va­nia — that the Democ­rats reli­ably won in pres­i­den­tial elec­tions for near­ly a quar­ter-cen­tu­ry before for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump nar­row­ly car­ried them in cap­tur­ing the White House eight years ago.But in 2020, Pres­i­dent Biden won back all three states with razor-thin mar­gins as he defeat­ed Trump, and the states remain extreme­ly com­pet­i­tive as Har­ris and Trump face off in the 2024 pres­i­den­tial election.So it was no sur­prise that Har­ris held her first ral­ly with Min­neso­ta Gov. Tim Walz — her ne …