With the August 9th primary fast approaching, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) showed up in Wisconsin to help boost Senate candidate Mandela Barnes’s campaign for the Democratic nomination. Stumping for Barnes at two events Friday and then another Saturday, Warren billed Barnes as a reliable progressive who would fight back against the Republican agenda and help abolish the filibuster. The Massachusetts Senator also took aim at Ron Johnson, calling him “one of the Senate’s most extreme members.”
According to an article in The Cap Times, Warren’s trip to Wisconsin is an indication the Barnes campaign is experiencing a new level of urgency. Warren’s trip to Wisconsin came shortly after an announcement from the Barnes campaign of a multimillion dollar TV ad buy earlier in the week. A recent Marquette Law School poll also showed his lead in the primary slipping. Barnes, long considered the front-runner in the race, was in a statistical tie with Milwaukee Bucks executive Alex Lasry in that poll.
