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January 6th announcing or leaking that he planned to object to the certification of electoral votes. he changed his mind at the last second after the violent insurrection at the capitol. but honestly, i think ron johnson has been the single worst republican on covid. right from the get-go when he downplayed the risks of this new disease, he told the milwaukee journal sentinel, we don't shut down our economy because tens of thousands of people die on highways. johnson has since gone on to tout all sorts of unproven treatments. ivermectin and most recently mouthwash. he has been pushing an incre...

So he -- you know, even for the right-wing takeover of wisconsin, johnson is really extra. >> all right. well, there's going to be a primary on the democratic side, a few good candidates. we'll be following this race closely and we'll have you back to talk about it, ruth conniff, thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. coming up, the public health emergency lurking underneath omicron. why one e.r. doctor is sounding the alarm, just ahead. y one edig the alarm, just ahead. aleve it, and see what's possible. and also try alevex topical pain relief.

On all the positions that the suburban women who turned against trump really don't like. all the anti-vaccine stuff, the real extremism. you know, he doesn't seem terribly concerned about hanging on to the people who helped elect him. and that's why the cook political report moved him as an incumbent senator, the only one, into the toss-up category. that's unprecedented. >> yeah, that's such a good point. the most recent polling unfavorable in the state from marquette had him under water. the messaging on the vaccine, a lot of other republicans have been very careful to try to create this conc...

Yet the republicans that rise to prominence in those states tend to be really out there. like the wisconsin republican party is really -- it's not like johnson is that much of an outlier when you look at the state legislature and the leadership of that party which really does seem far to the right of the median voter of your state. >> well, i do believe that wisconsin is ground zero for the big lie. and in terms of voter suppression, in terms of sending these phony electoral votes that helped give rise to the january 6th insurrection, claiming that there was a reasonable reason for republicans...

He's so trollish, so far right and pro maga but he comes from a state that doesn't line up with all of that. he's not from a plus 30 trump state. wisconsin has voted for the democratic candidate for president eight of the past nine elections. in 2012 wisconsin voters elected progressive democrat tammy baldwin as their second senator. she serves the people of wisconsin as well. the state narrowly flipped red for donald trump which helped ron johnson the same year he won re-election. there's a real gap between ron johnson's politics and the way he performs those politics and a huge part of the s...