Johnson is 'not the sort of lawmaker that battleground states tend to elect and then keep reelecting,' notes ed_kilgore
The underwhelming, but sometimes underestimated, senior senator from Wisconsin. Photo: Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images One of the last major shoes to drop in setting up the landscape for the 2022 midterm Senate elections is apparently on its way in Wisconsin.
Johnson will be a major target for Democrats. To put it simply, he’s not the sort of lawmaker that battleground states tend to elect and then keep reelecting. He’s sort of a cross between a local chamber of commerce president whose views of government and fiscal policy were formed in the 1950s, and a right-wing talk show host in a very small market.
But he’s not a pol who should be underestimated. In 2016 he was all but left for dead by many Republican groups when he badly trailed former senator Russ Feingold in polls for their rematch of the race Johnson won in an upset in 2010. His anti-politician shtick still seems to work under the right circumstances.