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Pro-Trump GOP Senator Ron Johnson draws laughs at debate with claim of FBI ‘set-up’

‘The FBI set me up with a corrupt briefing and then leaked that to smear me,’ Ron Johnson says during debate

The Independent UK

Debate audience laughs at Ron Johnson

Johnson was repeatedly laughed at and booed during debate with Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes

Salon

In Milwaukee, Latinos fed up with crime weigh GOP appeal

On Milwaukee’s largely Hispanic, working-class south side, voters are fed up with rampant lawlessness

The Independent UK

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Dollars to doubters? Dick Uihlein kicks in millions to help elect Republicans who question 2020 election results

More than nine of every ten dollars mega donors Dick Uihlein and his wife Liz have contributed directly to congressional candidates running in the midterms have gone to Republicans who cast doubt on President Joe Biden’s victory in 2020.

Chicago Sun-Times

Johnson, Barnes to debate in tight Wisconsin Senate race

Republican Wisconsin U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson and Democratic challenger Mandela Barnes are to meet for their second and final debate before the Nov. 8 election

The Independent UK

5 races that could decide the US Senate

A handful of races featuring some of the most unconventional candidates in recent memory will determine the control of the Senate in four weeks, when voters hit the polls in the Nov. 8 midterm elections.

Tribune News Service

The key races to watch in the 2022 US midterms

Control of the Senate could hang on results in a handful of states while votes for governor and secretary of state could affect the conduct of future elections

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Key Senate races tighten with a flood of GOP ad spending

The field of the top 10 races most likely to flip finds Republicans making serious runs at five Democratic-controlled seats and Democrats contending in the other five.

WEKU

The most important midterm elections to watch ahead of Election Day

Nevada’s Senate race could go either way. Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott likely to cruise to re-election. And John Fetterman still leads in Pennsylvania, Eric Garcia writes

The Independent UK

Ron Johnson sees advantages over Barnes in new Wisconsin poll

A new poll essentially illuminates two paths forward for Mandela Barnes

The Independent UK

‘This is Ron Johnson’s America’: GOP senator challenged on his hardline abortion stance in Wisconsin debate

Democratic challenger Mandela Barnes calls Republican incumbent’s position ‘dangerous’ and ‘out of touch’

The Independent UK

Johnson, Barnes to debate in tight Wisconsin Senate race

Republican Sen. Ron Johnson and Democratic challenger Mandela Barnes are set to meet Friday night in the first of two planned debates in Wisconsin's high-stakes U.S. Senate race

The Independent UK

‘Liar,’ ‘liar,’ debate sparks fire: Pritzker, Bailey accuse one another of lies, hypocrisy, being danger to Illinois

The high-stakes showdown — roughly a month ahead of the election — covered abortion, guns and crime; Pritzker’s handling of the pandemic, and the state’s financial ledgers. But the fast — and at times scattershot — pacing often left viewers without answers about where the candidates stood on those…

Chicago Sun-Times

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Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson says Jan. 6 attackers ‘did teach us how you can use a flag pole’

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., downplayed the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6 on Tuesday, saying the violent attackers “did teach us how you can use a flag pole.”

The Independent UK

Senator Ron Johnson claims January 6 wasn’t ‘armed insurrection’ but did ‘teach us how you can use a flag pole’

Trump was aware supporters were armed, according to congressional testimony

The Independent UK

Wisconsin Democrats put abortion in spotlight

Wisconsin Democrats up for election in five weeks are putting abortion in the spotlight, with the Republican-controlled Legislature taking less than a minute to reject Gov. Tony Evers' call to create a way for voters to get a chance to repeal the state’s 1849 abortion ban

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Will Bunch: Racist 'Willie Horton'-style fearmongering on crime may win midterms for GOP

When the midterm election winds shifted direction this summer toward Democrats, powered by a gust of anger among women voters over the Supreme Court and abortion rights, no incumbent GOP U.S. senator looked in worse shape than Wisconsin's Ron Johnson.

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Axios

Democrats lose ground in key Wisconsin and Pennsylvania Senate races

Both Democratic nominees are getting hammered for their progressive positions on criminal justice issues.

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: Young people need to fight for Social Security — now more than ever

One almost has to admire Republicans for the tenacity and determination with which they keep coming up with new ideas for hobbling Social Security.

Salon

Activists made a Ron Johnson poop statue

Members of NextGen PAC and MoveOn created the statue in response to Johnson calling climate change "bulls**t"

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: We’re old, we’re progressive and we vote

The GOP has been flailing a little in recent weeks, as an election once expected to be a typical midterm blowout has tightened considerably. If the GOP expects that older voters will bail them out as in elections past, our advice is, think again.

The Guardian - US

Alarm as Koch bankrolls dozens of election denier candidates

Election watchdogs say Koch’s about face after pledging change following January 6 is disturbing given the threats to democracy

The Independent UK

Kamala Harris talks abortion, appeals to voters in Milwaukee

Vice President Kamala Harris has met with college students and Latino leaders in Milwaukee during a visit meant to energize voters weeks before an election in which Wisconsin's Democratic governor, Tony Evers, and Republican U.S. senator, Ron Johnson, are on the ballot

Roll Call

At the Races: Cop votes and crime ads - Roll Call

The CQ Roll Call newsroom tracks campaigns nationwide, sharing the best stories, with some extras, in the At the Races newsletter.

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