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The 2020 presidential race already in full swing in Wisconsin

BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis. - It's more than a year before the presidential election, but across the state of Wisconsin it could be fall 2020.

Dozens of Democratic volunteers were combing neighborhoods to knock on doors in La Crosse and Whitewater on a recent cloudy fall weekend, while volunteers worked phone banks in Milwaukee. Republican county chairs were being trained in grass-roots campaigning in Green Bay and Haywood. And in Jackson County - a rural area that Donald Trump won in 2016 after decades of Democratic dominance - GOP leaders were already working to ready the troops.

"Democrats have been doing everything they can to discredit President Trump," Doug Rogalla, GOP chairman in neighboring Monroe County, said at a party dinner. "We have to do everything we can to reelect him."

Most voters across the country are not yet giving much thought to the 2020 presidential election.

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