Mandela Barnes: “It is a politicized issue. The Republican party has become essentially the Republican party of one person and I don’t…”
On the recordJune 5, 2026
“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.”
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.
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.
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.