Their final cases made, Walker, Evers, Baldwin and Vukmir turn to voters.

Scott Walker and Tony Evers finished their campaigns for governor the way they started, with Walker focused on the economy and keeping taxes down and Evers talking up the need to protect health care coverage and provide more funding for schools and roads.

Evers, the state schools superintendent, made his final pitch Monday in a swing through southern Wisconsin as the two-term governor flew across the state for stops in La Crosse, Eau Claire, Schofield and De Pere, with his travels ending with a nighttime rally in the Republican stronghold of Waukesha.

In the state’s other top-tier race, Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Republican challenger Leah Vukmir made their cases.

Vukmir emphasized her support for President Donald Trump and his bid to build a wall built on the border with Mexico. Baldwin stressed health care, a theme of her re-election campaign.

At a stop at Beloit College, Evers declared himself a pragmatist committed to getting things done and contrasted himself with Walker, who launched a presidential campaign shortly after his 2014 re-election.

“I’m going to Madison to solve problems,” Evers said. “I’m not going to Madison to go someplace else. That frustrates people sometimes — ‘Well, is Evers a moderate or is he a liberal?’ Frankly, I don’t care. What we have to do is solve issues that the people of the state of Wisconsin care about, period.”

Like Evers, Walker closed the race by hitting a theme that has defined his career — cutting taxes. In recent weeks, he has argued Evers would drive up taxes, leading his rallies with chants of, “Tony’s taxes will cost us jobs.”

In Schofield, Walker drew a dire picture if he loses his re-election bid.

“We’ve got a great track record,” Walker said. “We’ve turned things around. Eight years ago, this state was a mess. We can’t afford to go back to that. We can’t go back to the days of doubledigit tax increases, billion-dollar deficits and record job loss. That’s where Tony Evers would take us.”

In recent days, Evers has said he plans to raise no taxes, while holding out the possibility that he could increase the gas tax. He told reporters he didn’t see a discrepancy in his talk about taxes.

Evers was on the offensive when it came to health care, saying Walker could not be believed when he claimed in recent days that he wanted to put Obamacare’s protections for those with pre-existing conditions in state law. Walker said late last week he wanted to accept those provisions word for word, going further than he had before after fighting Obamacare — known formally as the Affordable Care Act — for years.

Evers said Walker was lying because he is in federal court to try to overturn the Affordable Care Act.

“Scott Walker has done something that I thought was physically impossible — talking out of both sides of your mouth at the same time,” Evers told the crowd in Beloit.

Walker said Sunday on WISN-TV he “absolutely” could get such a measure passed through the Republican-controlled Legislature, even though lawmakers declined to pass a more modest proposal this year.

Leaders in the state Senate have not yet said whether they would go along with Walker’s plan.

Baldwin vs. Vukmir

At a stop at the Marathon County GOP office in Weston, Vukmir said she was not daunted by polls that have shown her trailing Baldwin. She reminded her supporters of what happened in 2016, when Trump and U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson entered election day behind in the polls, only to emerge as winners.

“I do stand with our president for building that wall, securing our borders,” Vukmir said. “We’re a nation of laws.”

She charged that Baldwin “stands for open borders, she stands for sanctuary cities, she stands for abolishing ICE.”

Baldwin voted for the 2013 bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform bill that passed in the U.S. Senate and failed in the House. She has said she does not support abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and does not support open borders.

“You cannot look at that vote and what we did to put in that bill and say anyone who supported it is anything but strong on our border security,” Baldwin told reporters in Beloit.

She noted Republicans attempted to repeal the Affordable Care Act last year, but came up one vote shy in the Senate.

“My opponent wants to be one vote the other way,” Baldwin told the crowd. “We’re not going to let that happen.”

At the final GOP rally of the campaign, Walker was joined by the statewide Republican ticket and retiring House Speaker Paul Ryan at Weldall Manufacturing in Waukesha.

“Our state, our country is going in the right direction,” Ryan said, adding, “We have ... on the ballot, men and women of conviction.”

Ryan said that in less than two years, Republicans led by President Donald Trump and Congress have taken on “the big problems.”

“Do we want Nancy Pelosi as speaker of the House?” Ryan asked. “That is why we have to elect a Republican Congress.”