As Mandela Barnes Went Soft On Crime, Law Enforcement Left Him In the Dust

Wisconsin Democratic Senate candidate Mandela Barnes’s years of criticizing police has left him with few allies in the Wisconsin law enforcement community—a rift that his opponent, Republican Sen. Ron Johnson, has been relentlessly highlighting on the campaign trail.

While Barnes has scrambled to distance himself from the "defund the police" movement, his campaign has had a hard time finding officers willing to make his case in public. Of the 72 sheriffs in Wisconsin, only 2 have endorsed Barnes...