Some Democrats Are Sour on Mandela Barnes Running for Wisconsin Governor

Democrat Governor Tony Evers announced over the summer that he will not seek reelection. That leaves the door open for Republicans which would give the GOP total control of state government.

A name being floated for the Democrats is Mandela Barnes. Barnes left the Lt. Gov. position to run against Ron Johnson for the U.S. Senate. Barnes lost that race.

My friends-this has more to do with the state of Wisconsin than it does Mandela Barnes. He came close to beating Johnson for his senate seat. The GOP had to put a lot of pressure on Johnson to rerun even though he was committed to only 2 terms.

Like the GOP I think democrats are hesitant to vote for a black for governor(executive). Senators can get away with being rock throwers. Obama's supporters never used his middle name Hussein. Mandela is his first name and there are too many polaks in that state to not notice.

Methinks Mandela won't run. Perhaps a rematch with Johnson in '28 but JD will be the big item on the ballot. Think Iowa, Ohio, and Pennsylvania trending red. So what's he gonna do?

Gonna be awesome.

Barnes is a LOSER with a Capitol L! I’m anxious to see who President Trump backs in this race for Governor.

Whoever it is, they’ll win if they stick to the basics of MAGA.

There really are only a few pockets of Blue in our state.

Does not matter. Galactic level of incompetence in RPW who are more interested in purging grass root conservatives and TPUSA They have raised no money, have no message, and without TPUSA will be shown to be woefully inept of GOTV.

As long as current “leadership” at RPW is in place statewide losses will rack up.

Galactic level of incompetence in RPW who are more interested in purging grass root conservatives and TPUSA...

One of many state-level GOP organizations who are run by disguised subversives from the Democrat Party. The unwillingness of the GOP to identify and weed out these people is causing the country a lot of trouble.

Maybe so but repeating the facts is not folly

What does our side have?
A vindictive Never Trump Speaker only interested in his own power base
Directed RACC (State Legislative pac) to intervene to support Vos minions who were primaried. A highly irregular move since those funds are earmarked for general election support. However, did not lift a finger to assist Dewey Stroebel (WI State Senator) who was being hammered every day by eventual Democrat winner

How about Vos minion Dan Knodl taking Cheyney/Kinzinger Pac money to defeat True conservative challenger Janel Brantjen in Senate seat primary

A demoralized base who have zero respect and belief representatives represent them. The laughabley so called Conservative legislature
Nearly doubled budget since 2018 while population has remained relatively flat
Imposed a statewide tax on all Wisconsin residents to deliver a subsidy for a MLB team which honored Jacob Blake
Refused to walk away from additional budget increases in most recent session giving Evers a win

A State Organization which has
Consistently outraised by counterparts on other side by magnitude of 10 or 20 and only offer rationalizations

Pretty much driven out TP USA b/c they made RPW look the incompetent fools they are in terms of GOTV

Has gone after county parties but reluctant to take it to the Democrats

Thus my “repeating” the dire situation we are all in living in soon to be East Somolisota

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