The newspaper’s editorial board broke down precisely why it believes Johnson is “the worst Wisconsin political consultant for the reason that notorious Sen. Joseph McCarthy.”
It ripped the Donald Trump loyalist, who’s going through a reported tight race towards Democratic Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, as “an election falsifier who recklessly promoted” Trump’s 2020 lies and a “science fabulist” who baselessly questioned COVID-19 vaccines and unfold pandemic misinformation. Johnson was additionally slammed for making an attempt to rewrite “the sordid historical past” of the lethal U.S. Capitol riot.
“You’ll discover Johnson will not be touting a protracted file of accomplishments in his advertisements for re-election,” the board wrote. “As a substitute, he and his supporters have attacked his opponent — a Black man — as ‘totally different’ and ‘harmful.’”
Johnson was first elected to the Senate in 2010.
“Johnson prior to now promised to serve not more than two phrases,” the board concluded. “Voters ought to maintain him to that pledge in November.”