This month, Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes, Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, kicked off his general election campaign with a rally centered on expanding opportunity for Wisconsin’s working families and family farmers. Watch video footage of the rally here.
While Ron Johnson fights for $215 million in tax deductions for a handful of his wealthy donors, Mandela will fight for a tax cut for the middle class. While Ron Johnson puts Social Security benefits on the chopping block and fights to stop Medicare from negotiating fairer drug prices, Mandela will fight to ensure every person has the opportunity to work hard, achieve success, and retire comfortably.
Mandela Barnes is running to rebuild the middle class, bring supply chains and good-paying jobs back to America, and put Wisconsin’s family farmers first.
Here’s what they’re saying:
Cap Times: Mandela Barnes targets rural voters in first general election rally
“I believe the state of Wisconsin deserves two senators that are fighting for working people and families,” Baldwin said, a thinly veiled jab at GOP U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, adding that “Mandela has shown an unprecedented ability to unite Wisconsinites in a coalition that includes farmers, union leaders, teachers, small business owners and working people all across the state.”
“We have an opportunity to make sure that the American dream is within reach for every person in this state and every person in this country,” Barnes said. “We have an opportunity to then transform that American dream into an American reality.”
The Barnes campaign’s decision to relaunch its efforts on a dairy farm shows its commitment to winning back rural Wisconsinites — a voter base that has fled the Democratic Party in the state in recent years.
NBC15: Barnes holds rally at Hinchley Dairy Farm
“We have an opportunity to protect our family farms in the face of all this corporatization,” Barnes said. “We are a state that feeds the nation and we need to respect our family farmers because that’s who gave us our identity as the dairy state.”
WKOW: Mandela Barnes hosts kickoff event for general election campaign
“Our greatest challenges are our greatest opportunities,” Barnes said. “We have an opportunity to make sure that the American Dream is within reach for every person in the state, every person in this country.”
Senator Tammy Baldwin was also at the campaign event to support Barnes. Baldwin said Barnes was a candidate who would work hard for Wisconsin citizens.
“I cannot think of a better person to serve as a partner to me in the United States Senate,” Baldwin said.
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