Ron Johnson on Saturday compared the 2016 elections with a vote that happened aboard a hijacked airplane on September 11, 2001. “Now, it may not be life and death, like the vote passengers on United Flight 93 took, but boy is it consequential”.
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While Johnson joined state office holders in refusing to mention Trump by name, others in the congressional delegation broke the silence.
Sensenbrenner argued that those who choose to stay home in November would essentially hand the election to the Democratic nominee and Russ Feingold, who is challenging Sen. The race is expected to be one of the most expensive and fiercely contested in the country. Each represents a segment of where Republicans stand on Trump. One of them said they needed to ignite the enthusiasm from Trump that they had in 2012 when they beat back the attempt to recall Walker from office. Ted Cruz in Wisconsin’s primary. Jaeck said it would help if Trump would say who would be in his cabinet, and who he would nominate for any U.S. Supreme Court vacancies.
“I’ve been asked for the last two weeks, over and over and over again by the media, ‘Is the party united here in Wisconsin?’ Well, I want to tell you clearly, the Republicans in this hall and across this state are overwhelmingly united behind Ron Johnson to be our United States senator”, Walker said. Gov. Scott Walker is among the speakers Friday night and he’s hosting a reception behind closed doors.
Gov. Scott Walker said he’s been asked numerous times whether the Wisconsin Republican Party is unified, an issue that has come up as Republican leaders have expressed a range of positive and negative reactions to Donald Trump clinching the nomination. Russ Feingold was a central theme throughout the convention. Fitzgerald instead focused on Republican efforts to retain majority control of the state Senate. Send Sen. (Ron) Johnson back to Washington.
The convention ended with State Attorney General General Brad Schimel Ribble, who will be retiring at the end of his term.
“When it comes to the presidential election … we think it’s important that we have real party unity, not party unity, but real party unity so that we go into the election at full strength”, he said.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said he would “work for the Republican nominee” this election, but he urged party activists to remember his candidates.
“There’s a lot of time between now and the convention where we are going to have to discuss just where everyone’s at”, Alex Walker said.
That’s a feeling echoed by many other Republicans.
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But U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy was far less reserved, completely embracing Trump in his remarks, a stance he noted was somewhat “taboo” in the Wisconsin Republican Party. Alex Walker said they are working to bring College Republican chapter to Viterbo University and Lakeland College, in addition to reviving chapters at UW-Stout and UW-Platteville.
