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What A Day

Mandela Barnes Wants To Be Wisconsin's Next Senator

What A Day

Crooked Media

News, Daily News

4.612K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Wisconsin's 34-year-old Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes is one of the many Democrats running to beat Republican U.S. Senator Ron Johnson. Johnson's seat has been seen as one of the most likely to flip to Democratic hands next year. We interviewed Barnes about entering the primary with statewide name recognition and his overt effort to be the staunch progressive in next year's race. And in headlines: a 126,000 gallon oil spill hits the Southern California shores, a historically Black beach in L.A. is returned to its founders' descendants, and Ozy Media is shutting down. For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday

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0:00.0

It's Monday, October 4th. I'm Gideon Resnick.

0:09.4

And I'm Josie Defi Rice, and this is What a Day.

0:12.2

The podcast that plays out of a small speaker when you walk by animatronic

0:16.0

witches at the Halloween store. Yes, we did a deal with some Halloween people.

0:21.6

It is certainly outside the box, but it might pay off.

0:24.7

Pulse very well and the tendon on her proud. It certainly is.

0:35.2

On Today's show, a massive oil spill sludges up the coast of Southern California,

0:39.5

plus the mysterious media company known as Aussie announces that it is shutting down.

0:44.8

But first, we continue our series of conversations with political candidates around the country.

0:49.6

Today, 34-year-old Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes.

0:53.2

The summer Barnes, who has served alongside Governor Tony Evers since early 2019,

0:58.1

announced that he was running for Senate and what will be among many closely watched races next year.

1:03.2

He is challenging the incumbent Republican Senator Ron Johnson,

1:06.6

who has gone on to espouse even crazier things than typical since Trump's absence from office.

1:12.1

Hard to do. Johnson's public statements are often conspiracy riffs on everything from President Biden's

1:17.4

victory to the Black Lives Matter movement to the COVID-19 pandemic. He covers it all.

1:23.6

Yes, it is a litany. Barnes walked into a crowded Democratic primary with state-wide

1:29.6

name recognition and this overt effort to be the staunch progressive in the race.

1:34.6

And Johnson's Senate seat has been seen as one of the most likely to flip to Democratic

1:38.3

hands next year, and he remains personally undecided about whether he will actually run again.

1:43.4

So I caught up with Barnes a few weeks after he launched his campaign as well as a few weeks after

1:48.8

the Milwaukee Bucks made it to the NBA finals and I started off by asking him what made him different

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