Please support Mandela Barnes in Wis. for his run against the infamous Ron Johnson.

[Poiuyt]

Disclaimer: I have meet Mandela Barnes several times and I am about to send money to his campaign. Mandela handily won the Wis primary to be the Democrats candidate for US senate against Ron Johnson. He accomplished this because the rest of the field of dem candidates, several with well financed campaigns stepped aside and committed to support Mandela.

However, Mandela spent much of his war chest during the primary and is now short of money to make it to the end of the campaign against Ron Johnson.

We all agree that Wis has brought many great dem senators to Washington DC. Wis Dems include William Proxmire, Fighting Bob Lafollette, Gaylord Nelson (the father of EARTH DAY), Herb Kohl and Tammy Baldwin .

However we have also been responsible for a couple of the worst senators in US history.

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Stand with me to help Mandela Barnes make it through the next 5+ weeks. As of yesterday he was losing to Johnson by a single point. WE ARE TWO POINTS AWAY FROM KICKING Russian Ron out of the US Senate. Defeating Ron Johnson is not just a win for Wisconsin, it is a win to maintain a democratic majority in the senate.

https://mandelabarnes.com — Campaign Website.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/30/2126186/-Please-support-Mandela-Barnes-in-Wis-for-his-run-against-the-infamous-Ron-Johnsons

[Picaro]

1. Just contributed

[Poiuyt]

7. Thank you!

[SheltieLover]

2. Kicking for visibility

[usonian]

3. Reposted my GOTV page and added Mandela Barnes.

https://democraticunderground.com/100217211502

[Poiuyt]

8. Thank you!

[Lucinda]

4. ❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️

[PortTack]

5. Just donated...sure hope he can kick ron joh to the curb!

[Poiuyt]

9. Thank you!

[progree]

6. 👍 Here is Omaha Steve's link to contributing to Barnes so that DU gets credit for it

Its the 3rd closest of all Senate races according to https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2022-election-forecast/senate
after Nevada and Georgia. He's behind Johnson by a 2 point margin.

Omaha Steve has set up a DU link for Barnes - https://secure.actblue.com/donate/duforbarnes22

Wisconsin’s Johnson embraces controversy in reelection bid, AP, 9/28/22

[Ron] Johnson has called for the end of guaranteed money for Medicare and Social Security, . . . He’s trafficked in conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and dabbled in pseudoscience around the coronavirus.

. . . [about Social Security and Medicare] Those comments caught Biden’s attention, with the president repeatedly called Johnson out by name, including at a White House event Tuesday, for wanting “to put Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block every year. . . . If Congress doesn’t vote to keep it, goodbye,” Biden said Tuesday.

Johnson also dismissed concerns about climate change, said that he would have been more fearful during the Jan. 6, 2021, riots if the U.S. Capitol invaders had been Black Lives Matter protesters, and advocated for unproven and untested alternative treatments for COVID-19, saying mouthwash could be one way to fight the virus.

Their race is one of a handful around the country that could decide control of the Senate next year, and the only one with an incumbent Republican seeking reelection in a state carried by President Joe Biden. It’s also shaping up as the kind of razor-close finish that’s become common in Wisconsin,

Polls suggest that a Barnes edge in midsummer, likely propelled by his emergence as key Democratic rivals dropped out right before the state’s primary election, has evaporated under a barrage of attack ads from Johnson and his allies. A Marquette University Law School poll in mid-September had the race within the margin of error, with Barnes’ unfavorable ratings increasing by 10 percentage points from a month earlier.

MORE: https://kstp.com/associated-press/ap-regional/wisconsins-johnson-embraces-controversy-in-reelection-bid/

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https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/investigations/daniel-bice/2022/09/29/mandela-barnes-us-senate-candidate-vs-ron-johnson-2022-election-on-twitter-donald-trump-russian-spy/10440513002/

. . . 2010 campaign when he [Ron Johnson] claimed climate change was due primarily to sunspots

. . . his claim that mouthwash would kill coronavirus, his statements downplaying the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack

[Poiuyt]

10. Thank you for linking to that