{"id":1628665,"date":"2022-08-31T17:20:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T21:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1628665"},"modified":"2022-08-31T17:20:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T21:20:49","slug":"mandela-barnes-faces-political-dilemma-as-biden-visits-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mandela-barnes-faces-political-dilemma-as-biden-visits-wisconsin\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandela Barnes Faces Political Dilemma as Biden Visits Wisconsin"},"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\">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%2Fmandela-barnes-faces-political-dilemma-as-biden-visits-wisconsin%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=1628665&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--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Wisconsin Dem refuses to say whether he\u2019ll make a public appearance with the president<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/alana-goodman\/\" title=\"Posts by Alana Goodman\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Alana Goodman<\/a> \u2022 August 31, 2022 5:15 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Mandela Barnes, the Democrat running against Sen. Ron Johnson in Wisconsin, is ducking questions about whether he will make a public appearance with President Joe Biden when the commander in chief visits Milwaukee next Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes\u2019s campaign said he plans to attend Labor Day festivals in &#8220;Milwaukee, Madison, and Racine,&#8221; but declined to say if he will join Biden during the president\u2019s scheduled appearance at the Milwaukee celebration. Barnes\u2019s spokeswoman also declined to comment on the president\u2019s visit.<\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s visit is causing a political dilemma for Barnes, an outspoken progressive and the state&#8217;s lieutenant governor, who has been striving to present a more moderate image as he seeks to win over rural and suburban voters. The Senate candidate faces a difficult choice of whether to publicly embrace Biden at a time when the president&#8217;s approval ratings have <a href=\"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/poll\/2022\/08\/17\/mlsp71-press-release\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plummeted<\/a> to 40 percent in the state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The lieutenant governor is excited to participate in Laborfest events throughout Milwaukee, Madison, and Racine,&#8221; his spokeswoman Maddy McDaniel told several news outlets this week. &#8220;His priority is talking to Wisconsin voters and supporting the labor movement that gave his family a ticket to the middle class.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biden is scheduled to travel to Milwaukee and Pittsburgh to &#8220;celebrate Labor Day and the dignity of American workers,&#8221; the White House announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes has been working to ditch his reputation as a far-left firebrand, after spending his decade-long political career aligning with the progressive activist movement.<\/p>\n<p>Other Democrats in competitive races have distanced themselves from Biden. John Fetterman, the Democratic Senate candidate in Pennsylvania, declined to join Biden during the president\u2019s trip to Wilkes-Barre this week. Ohio Democratic Senate candidate Tim Ryan agreed to attend an event with Biden next month, but slammed the president\u2019s student loan forgiveness plan for sending the &#8220;wrong message.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last week, he told the <em>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/em> that he\u2019s &#8220;not running for the Senate to join the Squad.&#8221; While his campaign said he supports Biden\u2019s plan to cancel student debt, Barnes\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2022\/08\/25\/senate-candidate-mandela-barnes-says-he-wouldnt-part-squad\/7894192001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">comments<\/a> on the issue have been evasive.<\/p>\n<p>The recent pivot is a contrast to Barnes\u2019s political record, and his praise for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) and other progressives in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Johanna Hayes, they\u2019re bringing big bold ideas to Capitol Hill and they\u2019re changing the status quo,&#8221; he said in a 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LsUSKeRfbBE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">speech<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes said last February that he supports ending cash bail nationally, a policy he attempted to pass while serving in the state legislature. He has partnered with groups that support defunding the police, and was a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/mandela-barnes-talks-up-support-for-israel-on-the-campaign-trail-he-doesnt-mention-his-membership-in-a-vocal-anti-israel-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">member<\/a> of a radical anti-Israel organization that advocates for boycotts of the Jewish state.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Wisconsin Dem refuses to say whether he\u2019ll make a public appearance with the president  Alana Goodman \u2022 August 31, 2022 5:15 pm Mandela Barnes, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"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-1628665","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\/1628665","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\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628665\/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=1628665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}