WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) – Congressional candidates Sean Duffy and Julie Lassa knocked on doors and helped make telephone calls this weekend in a final push to develop last-minute support among voters ahead of tomorrow's election.
Lassa criss-crossed the 7th congressional district in a “For Us, One of Us” tour, stopping in diners, phone banks and labor halls. A caravan of United Steelworkers helped Lassa get out the vote in Wausau, Rothschild, Mosinee and Stevens Point on Saturday.
“We are going to do it together!” Lassa exclaimed at the Labor Temple in Wausau. “It's critical because can you imagine what we'll feel like on November 3rd if we fail? I don't want to feel that way. I know you don't. We have to have hope for the future,” she said, rallying Democrats not to give up on the race even though polls show her campaign trailing Duffy.
Duffy, meanwhile, continued the “Bringing the Axe to Washington” tour that he launched on Thursday. He campaigned with Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ron Johnson Saturday morning and appeared Sunday with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
“I'm here because Sean is a really fine candidate,” Giuliani said at Dale's Weston Lanes in Weston, praising Duffy's record as the former Ashland County district attorney. “Prosecutors really make excellent public servants because their whole formation of their career is about helping people and protecting people and protecting the community. Sean has done that really, really well.”
Duffy will campaign later today with former Governor Tommy Thompson at a jobs event in Chippewa Falls. His schedule also calls for get out the vote efforts in Wausau and Superior. Lassa's schedule includes phone banks and get out the vote canvassing events in Superior, Hertel, Rice Lake, Chippewa Falls, Marshfield and Stevens Point.
Editor's note: An earlier version of this story did not include Lassa's campaign schedule for Monday. The campaign released the schedule late Sunday.
