{"id":1533924,"date":"2022-06-30T16:04:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T20:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1533924"},"modified":"2022-06-30T16:04:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T20:04:56","slug":"aoc-makes-endorsement-in-senate-race-crucial-for-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-makes-endorsement-in-senate-race-crucial-for-majority\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC Makes Endorsement In Senate Race Crucial For Majority"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faoc-makes-endorsement-in-senate-race-crucial-for-majority%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1533924&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez\">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a> (D-NY) has endorsed Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes (D-WI) in his bid to challenge incumbent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/wisconsin\">Wisconsin<\/a> Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ron-johnson\">Ron Johnson<\/a> (R-WI).<\/p>\n<p>Barnes, who is hoping to earn the Democratic nomination in August, said \u201clet\u2019s get this done @ AOC\u201d on Instagram in response to the congresswoman\u2019s backing. Wisconsin is seen as one of the key states in the battle to control the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/u-s-senate\">Senate<\/a> to be determined in the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/2022-election\">midterm<\/a> elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not powerless, and we are never beyond hope. History shows us the way,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CfZFlT4A6h3\/\">posted<\/a> on Instagram. \u201cWe CAN do more to pursue these items more aggressively. And THEN once we do, we can secure the W and turnout the vote for [John Fetterman] in PA, [Mandela Barnes] in WI &#038; [Tim Ryan] in OH this November.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The New York congresswoman added in her post that if these candidates were elected Democrats could expand the Supreme Court, get rid of the Senate filibuster, repeal the Hyde Amendment, and codify <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> and same-sex marriage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Barnes\u2019 campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/now\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-backs-lt-180926307.html\">said<\/a> he supported her policy prescriptions with the exception of adding Supreme Court seats.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Supreme Court expansion, Mandela is open to the conversation, but his priority is reform,\u201d Barnes\u2019 spokeswoman Maddy McDaniel said. \u201cHe believes the Supreme Court should be subject to the same basic ethics rules as every other court in the country. He also supports term limits for justices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both state and local Republicans decried Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s endorsement of the self-described progressive, saying that it showed voters that the Senate hopeful would support radical policies if elected.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anna Kelly, communications director for the Republican Party of Wisconsin, told The Daily Wire that Barnes was being propped up by \u201cfringe-left\u201d Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fringe-left members of the Democrat Party are propping up Mandela Barnes because they know he would support their socialist agenda in the Senate. Barnes tries to waffle on issues like defunding the police and abolishing ICE, but he campaigns alongside advocates like Ilhan Omar and trots out endorsements from far-left figures like Elizabeth Warren, so Wisconsin voters won\u2019t buy his efforts to pretend to be moderate,\u201d Kelly said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Republican National Committee said that the endorsement demonstrated that Barnes would support Left-wing policies in office and that \u201cWisconsin voters will let her keep her extreme policies in New York and soundly defeat Barnes this November\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/gop.com\/blog\/you-are-the-company-you-keep-barnes\/\">according<\/a> to a statement from RNC spokesperson Rachel Reisner.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire reached out to Barnes for comment on the endorsement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Barnes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/true-believer-why-mandela-barnes-thinks-his-progressive-ideas-can-n1279273\">told<\/a> NBC in September that he had \u201cmore progressive credibility than any person running.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Wisconsin Democrat has also been endorsed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA)<\/p>\n<p>On his campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/mandelabarnes.com\/priorities\/\">website<\/a>, Barnes says he will work to protect \u201cabortion rights\u201d and says that he supports an immigration plan that \u201cincludes a path to citizenship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/a-political-exercise-ron-johnson-say-democrats-are-using-jan-6-hearings-to-distract-from-policy-failures\">told<\/a> The Daily Wire last week that he expects the Senate race in Wisconsin to come down to the wire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis U.S. Senate race is crucial if we want to gain the majority, if we want to stop the Biden agenda,\u201d the two-term senator said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has endorsed Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes (D-WI) in his bid to challenge incumbent Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI). Barnes, who is hoping to earn the Democratic nomination in August, said \u201clet\u2019s get this done @ AOC\u201d on Instagram in response to the congresswoman\u2019s backing. 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