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WI-Sen: "I won’t be lectured about crime by the guy who CONTINUES to defend the insurrectionists." [1]

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Date: 2022-10-09

In case you didn’t know, Friday night was debate night in Wisconsin:

x Wow. Ron Johnson just got his ass handed to him by Democrat Mandela Barnes. pic.twitter.com/ADKKe2GJq5 — Ellen Kurz (@EllenKurz) October 8, 2022

Mandela Barnes‘ first debate against Ron Johnson exposed glaring hypocrisies from both Wisconsin’s incumbent Republican senator and the Republican Party at large, particularly on the topic of crime.

The two squared off Friday night in Milwaukee as the Democratic nominee and Wisconsin’s sitting lieutenant governor also held Johnson to account on contentious issues like abortion, Social Security and Medicare.

But when the debate turned to issues involving crime — a topic that Republicans have increasingly used for fearmongering purposes — Barnes employed a strategic approach that expertly upended Johnson’s GOP-led talking points about Democrats purportedly being soft on crime. He simply pointed to the Capitol riots and how Republicans readily downplayed and dismissed undeniably illegal and violent activity by pro-Trump vigilantes in the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Johnson, known in part for racist comments that show contempt for Black people, has notably tried to justify the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol that left at least five people dead.

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