'Send Him Packing' — Wisconsin Paper Explains to Voters Why Ron Johnson Doesn't Deserve a Third Term

The editorial board of the most widely read Wisconsin-based newspaper encouraged residents to vote against Republican Senator Ron Johnson in November.

called out Johnson’s promotion of lies about the 2020 presidential election; his rejection of effective safety measures against COVID-19 in favor of bogus remedies; his anti-science views on the climate crisis; and his downplaying of the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol building, including“We cannot elect people to office who do not honor the results of elections and still expect to hold onto our democratic republic. It’s that simple,” the editorial board wrote.

“If that wasn’t bad enough,” the newspapers’ editors wrote, “he added this racist remark: If the protesters had been ‘Black Lives Matter and Antifa protesters,’ he said. ‘I might have been a little concerned.'”“You’ll notice Johnson is not touting a long record of accomplishments in his ads for re-election.

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