Posted on 10/26/2020 8:09:53 AM PDT by RandFan
Outagamie County Executive Tom Nelson on Monday announced a run for the Senate seat currently held by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), becoming the first Democrat to enter what is expected to be a crowded 2022 race.
In an ad posted on YouTube Monday morning, Nelson accused Johnson and other Republican senators of mismanaging the United States' response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
"There's just no help in sight," Nelson says. "And people like Ron Johnson have made this worse."
“Who gets tested for COVID and then goes to a party and puts people at risk?” he adds, referring to Johnson's attendance at a GOP fundraiser while he was awaiting test results for COVID-19, which were later positive.
Northeast Wisconsin, where Nelson serves as county executive, has faced surging rates of new COVID-19 infections in recent weeks. The state reported 3,778 new cases on Sunday, a rate of new infections that is now far higher than it was at any other point this year.
Nelson filed paperwork officially launching the bid last week, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. Johnson has not yet announced his plans for 2022.
"Ron Johnson is focused on getting things done and keeping Wisconsin red this fall. Anything 2022 is premature," a spokesman told the Journal-Sentinel.
Johnson was reelected to office last in 2016, narrowly beating former Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) by a margin of 50.2 percent to Feingold's 46.8 percent.
What can a senator do about COVID? As far as I know Johnson voted for the COVID relief bills so what more do they expect him to do?
Also, the Democrats blocked the latest relief bill which likely had the GOP votes (with exception of Rand :))
SO maybe he needs to blame Sen. Schumer!
COVID isn’t going to matter in 2 years anyways
Dems always run campaigns on what happened, not what they are going to do
The ads start November 4th...
Is that after he switches parties and is it for a primary run??
A nobody county exec from a red area. It would be nice if he was statewide.
“.....so what more do they expect him to do? “
Johnson coulda voted to impeach Trump so that the Country coulda followed “The Science” and cured CV-2 instantly; like POTUS Biden will do...
“Nelson was the Democratic nominee for the United States House of Representatives seat for Wisconsin’s 8th congressional district in 2016.[2] He was defeated in the general election by Republican nominee Mike Gallagher.[3] On October 20, 2020, he filed a statement of candidacy with the FEC for the 2022 U.S. Senate. “
The Fake News forgot to put a [’Rat] label next to his name.
Feeble argument candidate Nelson. Proves he has little to run on.
COVID isn’t going to matter in 2 years anyways
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It won’t much in 2 weeks. My guess is you’ll be hearing a lot less about it by Nov. 4.
Of course it is! Senator Ron Johnson is hot on the trail of the Biden Crime Family...this johnny-come-lately, Tom Nelson is most like trying to take the heat off that scandal...the Biden Crime Family.
COVID wont be going anywhere. Fauci will make sure of it. He is a camera whore.
They need to blame that on Tony Evers.
No worries folks. Johnson is one of the most powerful Senators in the Senate. He ain’t going nowhere.
This moron is running in 2 years on Covid-19? Hey, moron, what will you do to help Americans, will you lower taxes and help build the wall?
I agree. I don’t think he’s going anywhere. Not to get complacent, because democrats can steal anything. We should be thinking about unseating Tammy Baldwin.
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