Favorite in Wisconsin Democratic Senate primary calls in the big guns amid slide
Posted on AllSides June 5th, 2022
From The Left
Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes entered the Wisconsin Democratic Senate primary with all the makings of an automatic front-runner: statewide name recognition, a national profile, big endorsements and a cushy lead in early polling.
Then a multimillionaire opponent plowed more than $5 million into a flood of TV ads — all while Barnes was dark.