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Donald Trump addresses a rally in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Monday morning. | AP Photo Trump: I'll win Wisconsin like South Carolina

In anticipating his performance in Tuesday's Wisconsin primary, Donald Trump is hoping for something close to his victory in South Carolina, in another state where the governor endorsed an opponent and he prevailed.

"I don't know what's gonna happen," Trump told supporters at a La Crosse, Wisconsin, rally on Monday morning, remarking upon "untruthful ads" on the air in Wisconsin.

"Eh, most of them are. Not all of them. Couple of them, couple of them are getting pretty close, but they’re all negative ads and they’re spending millions of dollars on negative ads. They’re spending millions," Trump said.

Referring to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's endorsement of Ted Cruz, Trump remarked, "they have a couple of other people that I never even heard of against me."

"I don’t know who the hell they are. They never met me, I never met them, I don’t particularly want to meet them," he said, declining to name those people.

When South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley endorsed Marco Rubio, Trump said, people thought "it was over and then I won in a landslide, South Carolina."

"It was over, and I have a feeling the same thing’s gonna happen here. Because Walker has not done a great job," Trump said. "He has not done a good job. By the way, he’s been OK. You’re average. I hate to say it. You look around your surrounding states, you know what you are? Average! You’re not average people, right? So big deal. You’ve got the governor."

Whatever the reason for Walker's endorsement of Cruz, Trump claimed it did not come from a place of friendship.

"He hates Cruz. They all hate Cruz," Trump said. "Everybody hates Cruz. Lyin’ Ted Cruz."