U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) joined Governor Tony Evers (D-Plymouth), candidate for Lt. Governor Sara Rodriguez (D-Brookfield), and Attorney General Josh Kaul this week for a rally on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The event was focused on early voting and mobilizing students to turn out at the polls. “This is a big fight. This is a monumental fight for the future of Wisconsin,” Warren said. “When there is this much at stake. We can whimper. We can whine. Or we can fight back. I’m in this to fight back.” Warren was also critical of Michels’ positions on abortion and the 2020 presidential election. “Tim Michels crawled into bed with the election deniers, and the conspiracy theorists, and offered to use his office to undermine our democracy,” Warren said.
The progressive senator from Massachusetts also spent time highlighting decisions made by U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-Oshkosh) that she disagreed with. Warren pointed to Johnson voting against capping insulin costs, co-sponsoring federal abortion bans, and proposing to switch Social Security and Medicare from mandatory to discretionary spending as reasons Wisconsinites should not vote to re-elect Johnson. “Ron Johnson is for Ron Johnson and for extremist Republicans, and he wants a partner in the governor’s office,” Warren said.
Warren is not the only high-profile Democrat visiting Wisconsin in October. U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and former President Barack Obama will also be making stops in the Badger State this week to stump for Democratic candidates Mandela Barnes and Tony Evers.
