Both Have “Personal and Ideological Baggage”
Washington, D.C. — According to Democrat strategists, their party is having recruitment issues. In two of the battleground states – Wisconsin and Pennsylvania – “they’re on track to nominate a pair of polarizing lieutenant governors whose unconventional approaches to politics risk alienating swing voters.” Not to mention, they both have “personal and ideological baggage.”
According to the National Journal:
Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, the early front-runner for the Democratic nomination for Senate, is a Green New Deal-supporting, single-payer health care-backing, cash-bail-opposing candidate championed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman isn’t calling himself a progressive in this campaign, but he was a 2016 Bernie Sanders backer and he supports Medicare-for-all.
PA senate hopeful Conor Lamb, who is trailing John Fetterman by 30 points, isn’t holing back any punches either.
“It’s been very funny to us how the candidate [Fetterman] who has the most money and who’s on his third statewide campaign and who holds a statewide elected office is always claiming to be, like, the anti-establishment candidate,” Lamb told The Daily Beast in an interview.
“I’ve had to vote on every single issue under the sun. So, I have no room to hide these issues, but they do. And I just don’t think they’re acting like anti-establishment politicians if they’re afraid to differ from me and President Biden on policy,” Lamb said.
Statement from NRSC Spokeswoman Lizzie Litzow: “The stakes couldn’t be higher for Democrats, and they are dropping the ball big time. The Democrat frontrunners in two of the most important battleground states this year are far-Left liberals who fully support Biden’s and Washington Democrats’ failing, radical agenda. Primary opponent Democrat Conor Lamb is even calling them out. The writing is on the wall and if nothing changes, then voters will not hesitate to reject them in November.”
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