Sen. Ron Johnson was laughed at and booed multiple times during a debate with Democrat Mandela Barnes, especially when he was asked what he admired about his opponent and his response was to ask why Barnes had “turned against America.”
from the audience gathered at Marquette University on Thursday for the final debate between the two-term GOP incumbent and Democratic challenger Mandela Barnes in Wisconsin’s key U.S. Senate race.
With less than a month to go before the November midterms, Barnes — Wisconsin’s lieutenant governor — took Johnson to task over his opposition to abortion rights, support for cutting Social Security and Medicare, and 2017in favor of former President Donald Trump’s deeply unpopular and regressive tax cut for the rich and large corporations.
“When Senator Johnson talks about making Social Security discretionary spending, that means he’s coming for your retirement,” Barnes said Thursday night, referring to the Wisconsin Republican’s
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