Mitt Romney’s campaign announced Friday the Republican presidential hopeful will hold an event in West Allis Monday, meaning Wisconsin will play host to all four candidates on the presidential tickets within a six day span.
Romney’s visit will come one day before President Barack Obama comes to Green Bay and two days before vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan visits his hometown of Janesville. Vice President Joe Biden was at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Friday.
The visits underscore Wisconsin’s prominent status as one of a handful of battleground states in the election. A Rasmussen poll of 500 likely Wisconsin voters released Friday has Obama and Romney tied at 49 percent each.
The Monday event will be held at the Wisconsin Products Pavilion at 7 p.m., and will be the first time Romney has been in Wisconsin since August, when he was in Milwaukee the day after announcing Paul Ryan as his running mate. Obama’s last visit to Wisconsin was earlier this month when he held a rally in front of 30,000 supporters on Bascom Hill at UW-Madison.
