Who is winning the election? Republican Party of Wisconsin member and Donald Trump backer Sen. Ron Johnson is facing a challenge from Mandela Barnes.
Johnson, one of former President Donald Trump's biggest backers, painted Barnes as "dangerous" and soft on crime, hitting on one of the GOP's biggest campaign themes this cycle as it tries to win back control of the Senate.
Both Barnes and Johnson each attempted to paint the other as too radical for Wisconsin, a perennial swing state that Trump won in 2016 but lost in 2020 to President Joe Biden by slim margins each time."Other than hollow left-wing rhetoric, I'm not sure what he's ever accomplished or what he has to offer," Johnson said of Barnes in a debate.
Like many Democrats, Barnes tried to make the race about abortion rights. Johnson, a longtime backer of making abortion illegal, tried to blunt the issue by saying he supported a state referendum to let voters decide the issue. But he opposed an effort by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers to make such a vote possible.Johnson once said he wouldn't seek a third term, then explained his change of heart in January by saying he saw the country in peril.
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