Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) blamed his close race against Democratic candidate Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes on the mainstream media.
Johnson made the comments during a radio interview with John Catsimatidis Sunday morning, some ten days after the New York Times referred to him as “a leading peddler of misinformation.” The paper referred to his challenger, however, as “a liberal Democrat who has been touted as one of the party’s rising stars.”
“In a sane world with an unbiased media, my race, and so many of these races, wouldn’t even be close. But the media has turned this into an insane world. They’re not honest. They’re biased. They’re advocates for the left,” Johnson said. “Most people get their news feeds through big-tech social media giants. They’re a bunch of leftists.”
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After Johnson’s first debate against Barnes but before the second, a new Marquette University Law School poll found that 52% support Johnson, while 46% support Barnes. The poll was conducted Oct. 3-9 with 801 registered Wisconsin voters and has a margin of error of 4.3 percentage points. Barnes had the lead in a similar poll in August. However Johnson said he remaining “cautiously optimistic” despite the polls flipping and is taking “nothing for granted.”
“These radical leftists, they’re destroying the country. This fundamental transformation of America is fundamentally destroying it,” Johnson said. “They need to be stopped. They need to be defeated. They need to have a real shellacking in November.”
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Johnson is a two-term senator. Barnes is a single-term lieutenant governor.
