Now, he came within a whisker of unseating Senator Ron Johnson, who, as I've said frequently, in my view, his campaign carcass was dragged over the finish line by billionaires who put tens of millions of dollars into racist ads. And yet it's Mandela Barnes is the target of some not so subtle talk in Democratic circles that he shouldn't run for governor because he didn't beat [Ron] Johnson and the billionaires in 2022. So, Dan, you've summed all this up. The New York Times did a story about it recently, Milwaukee Journal, the Milwaukee Courier, with an editorial on why he shouldn't run. (28:09–28:22)
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