The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has a new article today on Democratic Senate candidate Mandela Barnes’s free-wheeling left-wing tweets:
Bice: On Twitter, free-wheeling Mandela Barnes called Trump a 'Russian spy' and rejected George Washington as a top president https://t.co/M02P3pilku via @journalsentinel
— Daniel Bice (@DanielBice) September 29, 2022
Denigrating the idea that George Washington was a great president will probably hurt Barnes, but his most damaging tweets may have been his comments about the Second Amendment:
Barnes once said he “really could not care less about a 2nd Amendment ‘right’” to bear arms. He also criticized House GOP Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana for not changing his position on gun control after being shot in the hip during practice for the Congressional Baseball Game in 2017.
“Taking one for the team,” Barnes wrote even as Scalise was using crutches and a scooter to get around the Capitol. “I question how people vote against self interest but this is next level. He literally almost died on this hill.”
Barnes has also been hurt by a comment, now the focus of an NRSC ad, in which he said: “The minute you talk about reducing a police department’s budget, then it’s like all hell breaks loose. It’s about reallocating funds.”