One officials says state hyper-partisanship is dictating 'decision-making.'
Both primaries and caucuses are ways to choose a party’s nominee, but they work very differentlycoronavirus pandemicAnd despite conflicting guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about limited larges gatherings, both campaigns for former Vice President Joe Biden and PresidentU.S.
Jill Mickelson helps a drive up voter outside the Frank P. Zeidler Municipal Building Monday March 30, 2020, in Milwaukee. The city is now allowing drive up early voting for the state's April 7 election.Biden, the Democratic front-runner, sparked controversy after saying he believed the primary could be held next Tuesday amid the pandemic, while adding it’s ultimately up to local officials.
Some progressive voices have criticized Biden's stance on the Wisconsin primary, including supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders, who has called on Wisconsin to postpone the primary election amid the coronavirus. Ryan Grim of The Intercept called it"despicable" and "irresponsible" for the former vice president not to call on the state to delay the contest amid the pandemic, a tweet that Sanders' national press secretary Briahna Joy Gray retweeted.
"It's a state call whether to delay the primary or not," a Trump campaign senior official told ABC News."We hope they make the best decision for the safety of voters. They know better what’s happening on the ground." Trump reached the delegate threshold to become the presumptive Republican nominee earlier in March. The former vice president remains over 700 delegates away from clinching the Democratic nomination and Sanders remains in the race with over 900 delegates.
"Asking a federal judge to change completely how we do election laws in Wisconsin in a matter of two or three days was dangerous. Honestly, think about how long it has taken us to develop our election laws or regulations or rules and to get it, even changing the game between now and November, makes me a little uneasy," Wisconsin Republican Party Chairman Andrew Hitt told ABC News.
"This is a politically polarized state," said Neil Albrecht is the executive director for the City of Milwaukee Election Commission."And I think it is a state government that has put party politics at the forefront of any practical decision-making. And because of that, I'm not optimistic that the type, the type of action that is so critical to the public health and safety of this state's residents is actually going to happen.
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