Donald Trump tries out law-and-order talk on suburban voters
A dispatch from the pundits’ favourite county suggests the president has not yet made a breakthrough
IN THE MOST genteel suburbs around Milwaukee, in southern Wisconsin, the quaintness can be overpowering. Enormous baskets of flowers hang from Victorian-style street lamps along the main street of Cedarburg, a riverside town in Ozaukee County. Tourists, caught in a summer downpour, may choose to take their shelter with a chocolatier, a cakemaker, two wineries or a French bakery.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “The suburban strategy”
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