Now it’s our time to come together and focus our efforts on that one goal. We have to do everything to beat Tom Tiffany.
Mandela Barnes
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American politician (born 1986)
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July 31, 2026
This is life or death for Wisconsinites who are losing their healthcare under a Trump administration.
— Mandela Barnes
While I may be suspending my campaign, I’ll never give up my fight for Wisconsin.
These long primaries suck, but it is good for people to be able to push each other, to challenge each other, to be able to generate ideas from one another.
If you want to build a real democracy, it is about not just working with the basic folks that you’ve known forever... but we’re in the business of addition.
We have to tax the wealthiest in our society and restore opportunity.
I know firsthand that we’re living in a rigged system. Everybody in this room knows that we’re living in a rigged system, and we see the rich become richer and richer… Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in the history of our…
It is a politicized issue. The Republican party has become essentially the Republican party of one person and I don’t want to find myself in a place where I am validating bad behavior.
It is a politicized issue. It’s very hard to find common ground with Republicans because the party has become essentially the Republican party of one person.
In order for us to truly make Wisconsin the place that it can and should be — not just to catch up to our Midwest neighbors, but to lead this entire country in terms of progress — I have put in that work.
People know how much money was spent against me. People know that I was the most targeted Democrat in the entire country.