GET ME REWRITE: Ron Johnson's mouth will be his undoing in this election

RoJo must be feeling his oats after reading this headline.

Headline:  Wisconsin State Journal, 5/26/2022

"This is a society-wide problem, a society-wide sickness that is not going to be solved by some gun law, additional gun laws here in Washington, D.C.," the Oshkosh Republican told Fox Business host Neil Cavuto. 

Asked whether stiffer background checks could curb future school shootings, Johnson said people will always fall through the cracks. He added he believed some people shouldn't have guns but questioned how that determination might be made.  [Ron is not much of a reader.]

"The solution lies in stronger families, more supportive communities, I would argue renewed faith," he said. "We've lost that. We stopped teaching values in so many of our schools. Now we're teaching wokeness. We're indoctrinating our children with things like CRT, telling, you know, some children they're not equal to others and they're the cause of other people's problems."

 

5/15/2022 update starts here

His unfavorables are up 11 percentage points since September 2020.

Marquette Law School polls

At the same time, the number of respondents who replied that they "haven't heard enough" about Ron Johnson decreased from 27% in September 2020 to 14% in April 2022.  That's a drop of 13 percentage points.  

One might conclude that once most people learn enough about Ron Johnson, they don't like what they hear.

Related reading:

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5/12/2022

Combining the four surveys that Marquette has done over the past nine months, 35% of registered voters view Johnson favorably and 44% view him unfavorably — a net rating of minus 9. 

Johnson has received his highest “negatives” ever (the share of voters who view him unfavorably) in Marquette’s last four polls. 

Compared with his peak in popularity in the pre-pandemic year of 2019 — when his average favorability rating was plus 10 — the downturn is notable. 

“There’s such a striking decline, and it’s a decline that has been sustained through 2020, 2021 and now into 2022. So, it’s not a short-term fluctuation, but a strong trend,” said pollster Charles Franklin