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.
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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
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