Both campaigns are a test of whether less traditional, more progressive Democratic candidates can win high-profile Senate races in battleground states
Two lieutenant governors hundreds of miles from each other may represent the Democratic Party’s best hope at gaining critical Senate seats. And it turns out they are “buds.”
Barnes said that even at the National Lieutenant Governors Association, he and Fetterman are “two people who stick out a little bit.” He’s not just talking about their liberal views — Barnes is 35 years old and, if elected, would be the first Black senator of Wisconsin. Fetterman, meanwhile, is six-foot-eight, tattooed, and would look at home in a motorcycle gang.
“Both energize people, particularly young people. Both talk in very real ways about the problems that families face every day,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren . “The things that both of them are fighting for are wildly popular … Roe vs. Wade, voting rights, investment in universal child care, tax reform so that billionaires pay a fair share. That’s the progressive agenda and that’s what America wants to see us do, so it’s no surprise to me that they’re both doing very well.
“Both energize people, particularly young people. Both talk in very real ways about the problems that families face every day.”In the interview, Barnes suggested he and Fetterman are running “hyper-local” races. The Wisconsin Democrat recently launched an agriculture tour to talk to farmers in rural communities. In a sign of Fetterman’s reluctance to nationalize the campaign in a general election, his team likewise stressed he is running his own race.
President Joe Biden won Wisconsin and Pennsylvania in 2020 — but by the narrowest of margins. And Republicans are betting that with rising inflation and Biden’s low popularity numbers, those states will flip red this midterm cycle. The National Republican Senatorial Committee recently released its first televised ad against Fetterman, which painted him as a Sanders ally. The Fetterman campaign said it was “chock-full of inaccuracies.”
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