{"id":1731417,"date":"2022-11-09T07:17:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T12:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1731417"},"modified":"2022-11-09T07:17:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T12:17:50","slug":"republican-ron-johnson-projected-to-keep-wisconsin-senate-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-ron-johnson-projected-to-keep-wisconsin-senate-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Ron Johnson Projected To Keep Wisconsin Senate Seat"},"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%2Frepublican-ron-johnson-projected-to-keep-wisconsin-senate-seat%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=1731417&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>Republican Ron Johnson has defeated Democratic candidate Mandela Barnes in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/wisconsin\">Wisconsin<\/a> Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/2022-election\">election<\/a>, according to a projection from DecisionDeskHQ.<\/p>\n<p>Decision Desk made the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DecisionDeskHQ\/status\/1590243871685910528\">projection<\/a> at 2:23 a.m. EST.<\/p>\n<p>Polls for the race, which was one of the most closely watched midterm races, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2022\/senate\/wi\/wisconsin_senate_johnson_vs_barnes-7758.html\">flipped<\/a> in the months leading up to the election with Barnes leading in many polls early in the summer, but Johnson jumping into the lead during the fall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Wisconsin race was seen as critical for both parties, with it being a must-hold seat for Republicans to have a chance to gain control of the chamber, which is deadlocked at 50-50. Democrats saw the seat as a possibility to build on the technical majority they held with Vice President Kamala Harris casting tie-breaking votes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the campaign, Johnson focused on inflation and crime, accusing Barnes of being soft on law and order and pointing to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/senate-candidate-critical-of-over-bloated-police-budgets-has-expensive-police-security-bill\">links<\/a> to groups that support defunding the police. Republicans in the state also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/dem-senate-candidate-who-posed-with-abolish-ice-t-shirt-under-scrutiny-for-immigration-positions\">pointed<\/a> to a photo of Barnes holding an \u201cAbolish ICE\u201d T-shirt, though Barnes\u2019 campaign claimed he did not support ending the immigration enforcement agency.\u00a0<\/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 in July that he expected the race to come down to the wire and said Republicans would focus on stopping the \u201cBiden agenda that is destroying our country\u201d if they should take power.<\/p>\n<p>The Wisconsin Republican has been a favorite target of many on the Left, as he has been a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/troubling-track-record-ron-johnson-questions-youtube-over-covid-censorship\">frequent<\/a> critic of tech censorship, gone after Hunter Biden, and promoted alternative treatments for COVID.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the campaign, Barnes, Wisconsin\u2019s lieutenant governor, portrayed himself as a progressive who touted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/aoc-makes-endorsement-in-senate-race-crucial-for-majority\">endorsements<\/a> from far-Left figures like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He made abortion a centerpiece of his campaign, pledging to fight for \u201creproductive justice\u201d and cited his mother as an example of a woman who needed to have an abortion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m an only child, but I\u2019m not my mother\u2019s only pregnancy. Before I was born, my mother had a complicated pregnancy, and she had an abortion. She shared her story because she wanted others to know that they aren\u2019t alone and then it was her decision to make,\u201d Barnes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/only-child-senate-candidate-defends-abortion-says-mother-had-one-before-he-was-born\">said<\/a> during a debate with Johnson.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Barnes has criticized Johnson, 67, a former plastics company executive, for his wealth and took aim at the Republican over the January 6 Capitol riot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the campaign, the lieutenant governor came under scrutiny for his stance toward ICE and the police, his expensive security detail, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/democratic-senate-candidate-mandela-barnes-repeatedly-criticized-police-russian-propaganda-outlet\">appearances<\/a> on Russian television where he criticized the police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His path to the Democratic nomination was ensured after his major opponents, including Milwaukee Bucks executive Alex Lasry and State Treasurer Sarah Godlewski dropped out before the primary. Both Democrats endorsed Barnes following the suspension of their campaigns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Ron Johnson has defeated Democratic candidate Mandela Barnes in the Wisconsin Senate election, according to a projection from DecisionDeskHQ. Decision Desk made the projection at 2:23 a.m. EST. Polls for the race, which was one of the most closely watched midterm races, flipped in the months leading up to the election with Barnes leading &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1731420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1731417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731417","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\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1731417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1731420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1731417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1731417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1731417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}