Four months and six candidates after Governor Tony Evers announced that he would not run for reelection, former Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes entered the race to be Wisconsin's next governor and became the instant frontrunner. He kicked off his campaign with this introductory video:
Barnes is charismatic, is a good friend of Labor, and has decent name recognition, which is probably the reason for his frontrunner status. But that is not to say he is going to have clear sailing to the governor's mansion.
His entrance into the race has set the Republicans into a foaming-at-the-mouth panic. Tom Tiffany, who is the frontrunner for the Republican Party, has been blowing his racist dog whistle until he's blue in the face. But then again, that seems to be Tiffany's only plank in his campaign.
But Republican opposition is to be expected.
What is really disappointing and disconcerting is the whisper campaign among Democrats that started long before Barnes even announced. They cite Barnes' loss to Ron Johnson in 2022. They acknowledge that Barnes came within one percentage point, about 26,000 votes.
But what they don't dare mention is that while RoJo had billionaires like Diane Hendricks and Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein. What they also don't mention is that neither the DNC nor the DPW came through for Barnes.
Given that information, it's obvious that Barnes did pretty damn good to get as close as he did with no help and against nearly insurmountable odds.
The fact that someone would start this kind of crap only tells me that they don't have a lot of faith in their candidate. And if they don't have faith in their candidate to win in the primary, odds are he wouldn't do well in the general election either.
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