Ron Johnson
![](https://talkingpointsmemo.website/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/GettyImages-1399107166-scaled.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1)
Back during the 2020 Senate election in Georgia, the campaigns of the two soon-to-be-defeated GOP senators, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, were both accused of digitally altering images of their Democratic opponents in negative campaign ads in racist and antisemitic ways.
Read More![](https://talkingpointsmemo.website/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/GettyImages-1238530656-scaled.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1)
![](https://talkingpointsmemo.website/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/GettyImages-1322898411-scaled.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1)
I made the point yesterday that the language Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) is using to clean up his past marriage equality remarks — earlier this summer he said he had no reason to “oppose” codifying same-sex marriage into federal law — is an obvious cave to the Christian right. In frantic messaging in recent days, Johnson has flip-flopped on his previous position as he struggles with the impossible task of casting himself as a reasonable guy to Wisconsin voters and a reliable ally to Christian conservatives.
Read More![](https://talkingpointsmemo.website/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/GettyImages-610633608-scaled.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1)
As one of, if not the most vulnerable, senator seeking reelection this midterm cycle, Sen. Ron Johnson’s (R-WI) been staking out his policy positions on a number of issues rather publicly in recent weeks — after mid-August polling from Marquette Law School found that the incumbent was trailing behind his Democratic rival. Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes has a 7-percentage point lead over Johnson with 51 percent of the vote compared to his 44 percent.
And his latest remarks — clarifying where he stands on a same-sex marriage bill that could soon come before members of the upper chamber — include a few too many references to “religious liberty” to not be read as a scrambling effort to satisfy the religious right after initially appearing to be open to the bill.
Read More![](https://talkingpointsmemo.website/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/GettyImages-1235252107.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1)
A recent Marquette University Law School found that Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) may not be as safely re-electable as he was ahead of his last reelection in 2016.
The poll was released last week, showing RonJohn is trailing a bit behind his Democratic rival — Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes has a 7-percentage point lead over Johnson with 51 percent of the vote compared to his 44 percent.
Read More