Posted on 11/09/2022 6:00:39 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
MADISON, Wis. — The race for one of Wisconsin’s seats in the U.S. Senate is too close to call early Wednesday, with the campaigns for both Sen. Ron Johnson and Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes telling their supporters to go home for the night while the final votes are tabulated.
Speaking to his supporters, Sen. Johnson said he was not going to declare victory in the early hours of Wednesday morning, but said “we feel very confident that there’s no way that they can make up that gap.”
As of 1 a.m. Wednesday, 98% of Wisconsin’s votes had been counted, with preliminary numbers showing Sen. Johnson holding slim lead of about 38,621 votes — or about 1.4% — with most of the votes from areas that are typically Democratic strongholds already counted.
“We’ll wait until all the numbers come in before I declare final victory,” Sen. Johnson said. “Let’s wait for all the numbers to come in, then we’ll declare victory tomorrow morning.”
Barnes’ supporters preached patience as the final votes are counted.
“We will not silence any voice. We don’t believe in voter suppression in Wisconsin,” Democratic Party of Wisconsin Vice President Felesia Martin said at Barnes’ campaign event. “Let the process play out. Thank you again and keep that positive energy going, sending Mandela positive thoughts.”
Johnson was first elected to the Senate in 2010, beating incumbent Democrat Russ Feingold. He then beat Feingold for a second time in 2016. Johnson had previous indicated he would only serve two terms, but walked that back in January, citing what he called the “Democrats’ complete takeover of government.”
Barnes represented Wisconsin’s 11th District in the State Assembly from 2013 to 2017. He won the 2018 Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor before he and Tony Evers narrowly beat incumbents Gov. Scott Walker and Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch three months later. Barnes was Wisconsin’s first-ever Black Lieutenant Governor and the youngest Lieutenant Governor in the country.
Johnson’s campaign took aim at Barnes’ policies, such as his support for the Green New Deal and rights for transgender people. Barnes, meanwhile, criticized Johnson for his stance on abortion and said the Senator downplayed the violence that occurred during the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
The two debated multiple times during the campaign, with the final debate coming in October.
Kudos.....you did it.
Mandela was b-a-d news.
Some reporting sites are saying only 99% of the votes have been counted and 1% is still outstanding. Even if that is true, I do not see where Barnes could pick up the over 25,000 votes he would need to beat Johnson.
I think the GOP takes the Wisconsin Senate seat.
I expect Republicans will sit on their hands just like 2020. Walker underperformed ALL Georgia Republicans running statewide who each won easily. Democrats will vote in droves.
If WI kept roughly the same state legislature and (elected) supreme court that limits what Evers can do. But if the keep the same legislative leadership they’ll continue to underachieve their potential. They need to improve state law, overriding inevitable vetos, to solve the Dane/Milwaukee cheaters. That DeSantis could flip Miami and nearly Broward shows that better laws can help. By any chance did the write in campaign against Vos succeed? That would help.
In Milwaukee County, there are enough outstanding absentee ballots to secure a win for Barnes.
Source: Milwaukee County Election Commission.
“all the polls had Johnson way ahead”
This unleashed the Dem fraud operators.
Especially when ABORTION is the LAST option:
They have:
1. Abstinence
2. Birth Control pills
3. Condoms
ALL Ahead of abortion-—Which follows LACK OF RESPONSIBILITY
Does that include the ones they are creating as we type here????
Just to throw this in. Foster v. Love is a SCOTUS case from 1997 that ruled results shall be reported before midnight on Election Day. There is a following section of code that allows for a runoff condition like WI.
The word ‘shall’ in the code means it’s mandatory for an election to be LAWFUL.
Politicians seated from an election that did not announce results on Election Day are subject to quo warranto actions to remove them once they’re instantiated.
Any thoughts on remaining absentee ballots?
Telling you the straight facts, sorry if you don’t appreciate them.
Academic now anyway.
The commies are never happy. And the idiots who vote for them are just miserable people who believe all the problems they see are the fault of someone else. Someone who has nothing to do with the problems.
The two counties that have the most fraud, and went to Barnes have already been counted.
There ARE no more votes to count.
And if they find any, not all will go to Barnes and he certainly won’t get the 25K+ he needs to win.
Barnes is acting like Stacy Abrahms (sp?) in GA when she lost.
Hopefully you are correct.
The Enemy Alphabet Media is finally calling it for Johnson:
“Republican Sen. Ron Johnson will win reelection in Wisconsin, fending off a serious challenge from Democratic Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, ABC News projects.
With 94% of the vote reporting on Wednesday morning, Johnson had 51% of the vote, followed by Barnes with 49%.
Johnson was viewed by race observers and assessments like FiveThirtyEight as one of the most vulnerable GOP lawmakers on the ballot this cycle after the battleground state flipped for Joe Biden in 2020.
“Truth has prevailed over lies and the politics of personal destruction,” he said in a statement on Wednesday morning. “I want to thank my family and everyone who supported me and worked so hard to save this U.S. Senate seat. I will do everything I can to help make things better for Wisconsinites and to heal and unify our country.”
The Republican senator was first elected in 2010 and is serving his second term in Congress, sitting on committees including foreign relations. Barnes is the first Black lieutenant governor in Wisconsin and would have been the state’s first Black U.S. senator had he won.
Johnson, like others in his party, focused heavily on crime and the economy while on the campaign trail, pushing to label Barnes as a far-left politician who was soft on public safety and wanted to “abolish” some federal law enforcement, charges which Barnes denied.”
Yay.
More:
The Atlantic
The Unshakable Ron Johnson
Senator Ron Johnson has survived another hairy reelection bid to win a third term in Wisconsin. This time, however, no one should be surprised.
Six years ago, Johnson’s defeat seemed so likely that the national Republican Party pulled its money from Wisconsin, all but conceding his race. Johnson won anyway. This past August, a Marquette poll found him trailing his Democratic opponent, Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes, by seven points, 51 percent to 44 percent. This morning, when the race was called, Johnson was leading Barnes by about one percentage point.
In the end, Johnson’s race wasn’t much of a nail-biter. Polls swung in his favor beginning in September, seemingly the result of a ruthless, well-funded—and to many Barnes supporters, downright racist—ad campaign blaming the lieutenant governor for a rise in violent crime and picturing him alongside other progressive Democrats of color.
Yet to Democrats, no setback in the scramble for the Senate was likely more frustrating than their failure to oust Johnson. The former businessman’s turn toward the conspiratorial wing of the GOP over the past few years had made him one of the worst-polling senators in the country and easily the most vulnerable Republican incumbent up for reelection this fall. Johnson became a vocal critic of COVID-19 vaccines and a champion of what he called “the vaccine injured.” He was embroiled in both impeachments of former President Donald Trump and downplayed the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-unshakable-ron-johnson/ar-AA13VmSO
‘The Atlantic,’ being gracious, LOL! Listing all the thing We The People LOVE about Senator Johnson! :)
Nice Ed.
Nice Ed.
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