{"id":1589502,"date":"2022-08-04T16:36:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T20:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1589502"},"modified":"2022-08-04T16:36:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T20:36:38","slug":"democratic-field-thins-in-wisconsin-us-senate-primary-consolidates-behind-barnes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-field-thins-in-wisconsin-us-senate-primary-consolidates-behind-barnes\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Field Thins in Wisconsin US Senate Primary, Consolidates Behind Barnes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fdemocratic-field-thins-in-wisconsin-us-senate-primary-consolidates-behind-barnes%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=1589502&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>Three candidates in the Democratic primary for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-wisconsin\">Wisconsin<\/a>\u2019s U.S. Senate seat toppled like a line of dominos in the last eight days before the Aug. 9 contest.<\/p>\n<p>And those who fell may have removed the toughest competition facing incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson (R), an analyst told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson is expected to advance past his primary challenger to the Nov. 8 general election.<\/p>\n<p>The trio of Democrats who voluntarily ended their races prematurely built a wall of support behind their party\u2019s frontrunner, Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes.<\/p>\n<p>Four other Democrat hopefuls remain in the primary against Barnes. But polls suggest that each has meager support among voters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/08\/31\/mandela-barnes-1200x800.jpg\"><\/a> Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes speaks to the crowd gathered at Civic Center Park located outside of the Kenosha County Courthouse, in Kenosha, Wis., on Aug. 29, 2020. (Jim Vondruska\/Reuters) <\/p>\n<p>So the narrowed field practically clears the path for Barnes to advance to the Nov. 8 general election, says Republican elections analyst Joe Handrick.<\/p>\n<p>But Barnes was one of \u201cthe weakest\u201d Democrat candidates, he said, and may be easier for Johnson to beat in the fall than two of those who bowed out.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, he added, some Republican candidates predicted early to do well in Senate races have appeared to be struggling. So U.S. Senate races across the country are becoming harder to predict.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin\u2019s could be one of \u201cthe tightest\u201d finishes in the country, Handrick says.\u00a0And that means the race could matter more than ever to both conservatives and liberals across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Headed into the Aug. 9 primary, Barnes\u2019 website lists his <a href=\"https:\/\/mandelabarnes.com\/priorities\/\">priorities<\/a>. They include \u201cfighting inflation and lowering taxes\u201d for the middle class, \u201creproductive justice\u201d in the form of \u201cabortion rights,\u201d the legalization of marijuana use, \u201cLGBTQIA+ rights,\u201d helping \u201cthose who are coming to the US in search of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three candidates have dropped out ahead of Wisconsin\u2019s\u00a0Democratic U.S. Senate primary on\u00a0Aug. 9 as the party appears to be consolidating support behind Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes. State Treasurer Sarah Godlewski\u2019s decision to withdraw from the race on July 29 came after Outagamie County Executive Tom Nelson dropped out on July 25 and Barnes\u2019s top rival, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":984,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1589502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}