How Republicans’ racist attack ads wiped out Democrat’s lead in Wisconsin

Ron Johnson's campaign of race and fear' is affecting Senate race that Mandela Barnes once looked to have in the bag

After months of flinging mud, Senator Ron Johnson was finally obliged to admit that his Democratic opponent in the upper midwestern state of Wisconsin had never actually made a call to defund the police".

But that did not stop the Trumpist senator's re-election drive from continuing to broadcast racially charged advertisements falsely claiming that Mandela Barnes, the lieutenant governor of Wisconsin, rationalized violence" against the police and tying him to the most controversial positions of Black Lives Matter.