Mandela Barnes, the governor of Wisconsin and the current Democratic candidate for the US Senate, was captured over the Fourth of July weekend, saying he thought America’s founding was “terrible.”
During the 4th of July weekend, Milwaukee-based talk show host Dan O’Donnell published A short 37-second video on social media showing how Barnes felt about America’s founding and the nation’s origins.
He said, “Things were bad, things were terrible” when talking about the nation’s origins.
“Founding this nation?” Barnes added, noting that Americans need to “commit” to repairing “the damage” and “damage” done in the past.
He then added that the impact of colonialism and slavery is still felt today, and that “[t]It will continue to be felt unless we deal with it in a meaningful way.”
The Democrat announced his candidacy to impeach Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) in the upcoming midterm elections last summer. The August 9 Democratic primary will determine who will run to face Johnson in November. The state will be a crucial battleground for control of the Senate.
While Barnes captured national attention when he became Wisconsin’s first black governor in 2018 and pushed for police reform in 2020 after the police shooting of Jacob Blake, any Democrat will face an uphill battle in the general election over President Joe Biden’s approval numbers.
Biden’s low approval rates are dragging down Democratic candidates across the country. As of this past weekend, Biden had 33 percent approval and 57 percent disapproval in Wisconsin, 30 percent approval and 58 percent disapproval nationally, according to CIVIQS’s rolling average of job approvals on July 3.
In a statement about his remarks, Barnes campaign Tell Fox News writes that “characterizing the governor’s comment as anything other than a condemnation of slavery is a sad attempt by Republicans to distract from Ron Johnson’s attempt to overthrow the government of this country and strip millions of Americans of reproductive rights.”
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