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Wisconsin GOP Sen. Johnson hauls in $7.1 million over the past three months for his reelection bid
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EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin seems to be making up for misplaced time.
The 2-term Republican senator whom Democrats are focusing on as he runs for reelection in November’s midterms raked in $7.1 million within the January-March first quarter of fundraising, based on figures shared first with Fox Information on Thursday.
Johnson’s haul is a large improve from the $711,498 he introduced in in the course of the closing three months of final 12 months. However that was earlier than Johnson formally declared his candidacy for reelection, which he introduced on Jan. 9, ending months of hypothesis relating to his 2022 intentions.
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The senator introduced in his cash by his joint fundraising committee with the Nationwide Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), his reelection marketing campaign, and his management PAC.
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., takes his seat for the Senate International Relations Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Safety Cooperation Subcommittee listening to within the Dirksen Senate Workplace Constructing on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. (Invoice Clark/CQ-Roll Name, Inc through Getty Photos).
(Invoice Clark/CQ-Roll Name, Inc through Getty Photos)
Johnson’s political crew highlighted that the senator’s fundraising in the course of the first quarter got here from 71,000 whole contributions from over 40,000 donors. And showcasing the senator’s grassroots enchantment, they famous that 95% of donations had been underneath $200 and that $2.1 million was raised on-line, with the typical digital donation of simply $38.
“Senator Johnson’s robust fundraising quarter exhibits broad assist for his marketing campaign,” marketing campaign communications director Jake Wilkins touted.
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Johnson, a conservative senator and robust supporter of former President Donald Trump, was first elected within the 2010 Tea Celebration-fueled crimson wave, defeating three-term Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold.
As he gained reelection by edging Feingold of their 2016 rematch, Johnson vowed to solely serve two phrases. However final 12 months, with the Democrats controlling the White Home and each homes of Congress, the senator stated occasions had modified.
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Johnson stirred controversy final 12 months by questioning COVID-19 vaccines, seemingly downplaying the results of local weather change, and asserting that he by no means felt threatened by the rioters that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 as they tried to disrupt congressional certification of President Biden’s Electoral School victory over Trump. Johnson praised those that attacked the Capitol as individuals who “love this nation.”
Trump endorsed Johnson’s reelection in April of final 12 months, eight months earlier than the senator introduced he’d search one other time period.
Former President Donald Trump speaks in the course of the ‘Save America’ rally on the Montgomery County Fairgrounds on January 29, 2022 in Conroe, Texas. (Photograph by Brandon Bell/Getty Photos)
(Photograph by Brandon Bell/Getty Photos)
The Senate contest in Wisconsin – a key battleground state that Biden narrowly carried within the 2020 election – is one in all a handful of contests that would finally determine which get together controls the Senate. Two of high three nonpartisan political handicappers rank the race as “lean Republican,” with the third ranking it a toss-up.
The chamber is at the moment break up 50/50 between the 2 main political events, however the Democrats maintain the bulk because of the tie-breaking vote of Vice President Kamala Harris by her constitutional function as president of the Senate. Which means the GOP wants a internet achieve of only one seat to reclaim the bulk it misplaced when it was swept within the January 2021 twin Senate runoff contests in Georgia.
Practically a dozen Democratic candidates are in search of their get together’s Senate nomination, together with Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, who’s the polling front-runner in his get together’s main.
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Johnson is utilizing fundraising sources “to counter the lies and distortions of a number of Democrat candidates, liberal darkish cash teams, and biased media,” Wilkins argued. “Since Democrats can’t defend the disastrous outcomes of their insurance policies – file gasoline costs, 40-year excessive inflation, a flood of unlawful immigration, rising crime, and a weakened America – they resort to the politics of non-public destruction.”
And he emphasised that Johnson “will proceed to inform the reality, concentrate on the problems that concern Wisconsinites, and spotlight his file of serious accomplishments.”