WATCH REPLAY: Trump Town Hall with Tulsi Gabbard- Wisconsin

WATCH REPLAY: Trump Town Hall - Wisconsin

Donald Trump to hold town hall in La Crosse, Wisconsin; Tulsi Gabbard to moderate

Donald Trump is scheduled to campaign Thursday in Michigan and Wisconsin as the former president ramps up battleground state travel heading into the traditional Labor Day turn toward the fall election.

Trump's intense focus on recapturing states he won in 2016 but lost narrowly in 2020 continues with stops in the middle of Michigan and western Wisconsin.

Trump will visit La Crosse on Thursday evening for a town hall moderated by former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who endorsed him in Detroit. It will be Trump's first visit to Wisconsin since the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, which ended three days before President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and made way for Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump supporters started lining up in the early morning hours to get into the event. While all available seats were taken, several thousand were in attendance. It's a smaller venue than Trump usually addresses. Trump likes late, packed rallies, but has admitted his advisors have been pressuring him to stay on message, and they believe the smaller format enhances his ability to do so.

Trump started his day on Thursday with a rally in Potterville, Michigan, near the state capital of Lansing. Trump won Eaton County, where part of Lansing is located, in both 2016 and 2020, but by a smaller margin the second time. It will be his third visit to the state in the past nine days and second this week after a speech to the National Guard Association in Detroit on Monday.