{"id":1732075,"date":"2022-11-09T12:18:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T17:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1732075"},"modified":"2022-11-09T12:18:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T17:18:27","slug":"tough-on-crime-ron-johnson-defeats-far-left-candidate-who-wanted-to-defund-the-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tough-on-crime-ron-johnson-defeats-far-left-candidate-who-wanted-to-defund-the-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough on Crime: Ron Johnson Defeats Far-Left Candidate Who Wanted To Defund the Police"},"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\">28<\/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%2Ftough-on-crime-ron-johnson-defeats-far-left-candidate-who-wanted-to-defund-the-police%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=1732075&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 senator Ron Johnson secured reelection to a third term as Wisconsin senator, holding on to a seat crucial to Republican efforts to win majority control of the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson received 50.5 percent of the vote, and his opponent, Democrat Mandela Barnes, received 49.3 percent of the vote with 94 percent of votes counted as of Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>It was also a major blow to Democrats, who have spent years\u2014and tens of millions of dollars\u2014attempting to oust Johnson, an outspoken conservative and former businessman who was first elected in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Although polls showed Barnes leading Johnson after the August primary, Wisconsin voters quickly soured on the Democratic candidate as his work with far-left activist groups and history of controversial statements, including his praise for anti-American dictators and criticism of capitalism, came to light.<\/p>\n<p>In September, the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/video-watch-mandela-barnes-say-world-must-stymie-capitalism-to-combat-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published<\/a> a video of Barnes telling a United Nations panel that the world needed to &#8220;stymie capitalism&#8221; in order to combat climate change and adding that he opposed any &#8220;new pipeline construction&#8221; because &#8220;if the infrastructure is there, then people are going to use it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Barnes has <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/barnes-praises-khamenei-hopes-to-be-dennis-rodman-of-the-assad-regime\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">praised<\/a> Iran\u2019s supreme leader Ali Khamenei for supporting Black Lives Matter and said he wanted to be the &#8220;Dennis Rodman&#8221; of the Assad regime. He <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/mandela-barnes-god-country-and-guns-rhetoric-as-dangerous-as-isis-terrorists\/\">claimed<\/a> Americans who support &#8220;God, country, and guns&#8221; are espousing the same &#8220;dangerous&#8221; rhetoric as members of the terrorist group ISIS. He also <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/the-man-is-brilliant-mandela-barnes-praises-rev-jeremiah-wright-after-speech-accusing-israel-of-ethnic-cleansing\/\">posed<\/a> for a photo with anti-Semitic pastor Jeremiah Wright and called the controversial preacher &#8220;brilliant&#8221; after attending a speech in which Wright accused Israel of &#8220;ethnic cleansing&#8221; and the United States of committing &#8220;war crimes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Barnes, who <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/wisconsin-dem-takes-far-left-groups-money-but-claims-he-doesnt-support-their-policies\/\">received<\/a> significant campaign funding from an organization led by &#8220;Defund the Police&#8221; activists 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\/\">member<\/a> of an anti-Israel activist group, struggled to appeal to voters in a state where crime was a leading election issue.<\/p>\n<p>He was slammed by law enforcement supporters for failing to stand up for police during the Kenosha riots, posing in an &#8220;Abolish ICE&#8221; T-shirt, and for partnering with anti-police groups, including the Center for Popular Democracy, which sponsored <a href=\"http:\/\/defundpolice.org\/\">defundpolice.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pete Deates, the president of the Kenosha Professional Police Association Board, told the <em>Free Beaco<\/em>n that Barnes\u2019s anti-police rhetoric &#8220;100 percent&#8221; fueled the rioters in Kenosha in 2020. &#8220;He has shown and said things that prove he does not support law enforcement,&#8221; Deates told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes, who sponsored legislation to end<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican senator Ron Johnson secured reelection to third term as Wisconsin senator on Thursday, holding on to a seat crucial to Republican efforts to win majority control of the Senate.<br \/>\nThe post Tough on Crime: Ron Johnson Defeats Far-Left Candidate Who Wanted To Defund the Police appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":1732078,"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":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1732075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"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\/1732075","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=1732075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1732078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1732075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1732075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1732075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}