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Ron Johnson
Ronald Harold Johnson is an American businessman and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Wisconsin, a seat he has held since 2011. A Republican, Johnson was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010, defeating Democratic incumbent Russ Feingold. Johnson defeated Feingold in a rematch in 2016, and defeated Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes in 2022. Before entering politics,…
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Born 8 April 1955 · Q970272
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2026· 10 entries
“reasonable position that most Americans agree with”
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“defeat the deep state by funding it”
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“s victory publicly. He walked back his claims of voter fraud, saying it was not widespread enough to invalidate Biden”
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Crooks and Liars: Ron Johnson Argues Against Lifting Social Security Tax Cap
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Crooks and Liars: Ron Johnson Is Opposed To Saving Social Security
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Public attention spiked: 2,601 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.2× the usual 497, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 6,062 Wikipedia readers in one day, 12.2× the usual 497, with 0 article edits. Coverage that week: “Sen Ron Johnson grills Fauci on vaccine safety, personal health issues” (Fox News).
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Fox News: Sen Ron Johnson grills Fauci on vaccine safety, personal health issues
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IBTimes UK: Fact Check: Did 3.9 Million Americans Really Die From Covid Vaccines According to Sen. Ron Johnson's Claims?
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2025· 7 entries
CNBC: Sen. Ron Johnson rips into 'immoral' GOP spending bill: 'I can't accept it'
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CNBC: Sen. Ron Johnson on 'immoral' GOP spending bill: This is grotesque what we're doing
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WSAW: Sen. Ron Johnson suggests he might not run for reelection, but is not ruling it out
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WBUR: Sen. Ron Johnson opposes Trump's 'big, beautiful' spending bill because he wants more cuts
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Johnson said he did not want to run for reelection in 2028 but had yet to make a final decision
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Johnson opposed a 10-year moratorium on artificial intelligence regulations because the issue was too complex to make such a decision and the correct amount of regulation remained unclear
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Because it did not offset its tax cuts by reducing spending
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2024· 2 entries
Claimed: “Says in his three election campaigns, the early polls were "wildly incorrect, all three times."” — rated Mostly True by PolitiFact.
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Johnson was one of 18 senators who voted against a third budget extension to prevent a government shutdown because he wanted to avoid indefinite extensions without passing a full budget
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2023· 4 entries
Claimed: “Democrats have also used alternate slates of electors "repeatedly in all kinds of different states."” — rated False by PolitiFact.
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Claimed: “Says Social Security is a “legal Ponzi scheme.”” — rated Mostly False by PolitiFact.
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The FBI collected phone records of Johnson and eight other Republicans documenting the times and recipients of their calls on January 4–7, 2021, to investigate their involvement in the plot to submit fake electors and ov
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Career landmark: United States senator (2023).
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2022· 15 entries
Election lost: 2022 Senate election.
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Published video “Transforming Lives in Wausau: The Joseph Project”.
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PolitiFact rated the claim ““Ron Johnson just came out in favor of a federal abortion ban.”” Mostly False.
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Claimed: ““I get accused of talking about something I’d never even heard of. Okay. I don’t think I’ve ever even said the word. And I’m not going to say it now. … About this theory, all I’ve ever done is parroted exactly what Democrats have said about this.”” — rated Three Pinocchios by The Washington Post.
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Published video “Sen. Johnson Opening Statement in HSGAC”.
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Published video “COVID-19: A Second Opinion”.
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Saying that Russia would inevitably win and that further support would be a waste of funds
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Johnson said that Democrats were intentionally raising gas prices to force people to use electric vehicles
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Campaign: 2022 Senate election.
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Because he believed a Russian victory was inevitable
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Blocked a Biden administration nominee, William Pocan, from serving as a federal district court judge in Wisconsin despite previously endorsing him
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Saying there were calls for him to run and that he needed to stay in the Senate because "America is in peril"
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Johnson was the only incumbent Republican nominee for the Senate competing in a state that Trump lost in the 2020 presidential election
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Said it was better for the marketplace to decide wages than to have a government-mandated minimum wage
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And said those in favor of abolishing it wanted "absolute power"
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2021· 14 entries
Published video “Senator Johnson Media Mention on Mark Belling 11 30”.
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Published video “Vaccine Mandates Expert Panel Highlights”.
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Published video “Kenosha County Sheriff on Kenosha's Recovery after the Riots”.
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Published video “Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth on the Kenosha riots”.
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Published video “Kenosha One Year Later”.
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Published video “Ron's Staff Mobile Office Hours”.
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Published video “Senator Johnson on Service Academy Nominations”.
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Claimed: “On passing high-dollar legislation with no time to read it.” — rated Full Flop by PolitiFact.
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Johnson supported a request for the Supreme Court to uphold a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks, with exceptions for "severe fetal abnormality" or medical emergency but none for rape and incest
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Testified to Congress that Johnson had suggested submitting electoral votes for Trump despite Biden's victory in Wisconsin
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Career landmark: United States senator (2021–2023).
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During the Biden administration Johnson delayed passage of the American Rescue Plan Act
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Out of concern that it would create a perverse incentive to keep people from working
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“s safety and said he would have been be more afraid if Black Lives Matter or Antifa had been at the Capitol, saying he knew Trump supporters and they never”
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2020· 2 entries
Election lost: 2020 presidential election and January 6 attack.
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Campaign: 2020 presidential election and January 6 attack.
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2019· 4 entries
Claimed: “Donald Trump is the "chief law enforcement officer of America."” — rated Analysis (no rating given) by PolitiFact.
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Career landmark: United States senator (2019–2021).
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Trump was impeached over allegations that he had frozen aid to Ukraine to pressure the Ukrainian government to announce investigations into whether Ukraine had interfered in the 2016 presidential election and whether Joe
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On the condition that it be used to negotiate the construction of the Mexico–United States border wall
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2018· 2 entries
Claimed: “Claimed the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was an “incentive” for unaccompanied children to try to cross the border illegally.” — rated Misleading by FactCheck.org.
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And supported launching strikes against the Houthis in Yemen in response to their attacks on ships during the Red Sea crisis that began in 2023
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2017· 4 entries
Claimed: ““We are $20 trillion in debt. The Congressional Budget Office projects an additional $129 trillion of accumulated deficits over the next 30 years.”” — rated Mostly True by PolitiFact.
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Feeling it was too generous to larger corporations and did too little for small businesses, and he objected to how the bill would affect companies using a pass-through model, but he was successful in getting a 20% deduct
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Johnson supported the end of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which provided protections for illegal immigrants brought to the U
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Career landmark: United States senator (2017–2019).
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2016· 9 entries
PolitiFact rated the claim “Says Ron Johnson "helped companies ship jobs overseas."” False.
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Claimed: “" ‘What difference, at this point, does it make?' I am the guy that got under her skin and provoked that infamous response from Hillary Clinton by asking a pretty simple question, 'Why didn't you just pick up the phone and call the survivors’ (of the Benghazi attack)?"” — rated Mostly True by PolitiFact.
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Claimed: ““You have to assume that our enemies and our adversaries had access to every email that ever went over [Hillary Clinton's] private server.”” — rated No Evidence to Date by FactCheck.org.
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And defeated Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes in 2022
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That "we already have 38 different programs that lower payments"
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Campaign: 2016 Senate election.
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Johnson said he would support a small increase to the national minimum wage if it were tied to inflation, and in 2021 he expressed support for "increasing the minimum wage to some extent"
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And Johnson campaigned on confirming a more conservative nominee who would uphold the right to bear arms
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Johnson rejected Republican presidential nominee Trump's allegations that the upcoming election would be rigged
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2015· 5 entries
And to establish the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement in 2020
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Career landmark: United States senator (2015–2017).
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Was one of the few Republicans who voted to allow same-sex spouses to have access to federal Social Security and veterans' benefits
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Voted for an amendment to establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to allow all employees in the country to earn paid sick time
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Reported net worth: $36M (as of 2015).
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2014· 3 entries
Johnson was one of three senators to oppose an increase in funding to the Department of Veterans Affairs, which he said passed too quickly without consideration of offsetting the expenses
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Johnson sued the United States Office of Personnel Management to challenge the subsidies that the ACA gave members of Congress and their staff
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President Barack Obama unexpectedly appointed Johnson as a representative to a session of the United Nations General Assembly despite Johnson's opposition to both Obama and the United Nations
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2013· 2 entries
Because he objected to the other committee members' permissiveness about spending, and joined the Committee on Foreign Relations
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Career landmark: United States senator (2013–2015).
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2011· 3 entries
Career landmark: United States senator (2011–2013).
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Johnson co-sponsored a federal bill that would grant all fetuses the rights of personhood, with no exceptions for rape or incest
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Because he felt the budget needed to be cut even further, and he stalled a bill authorizing military action in Libya in protest of the budget
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2010· 5 entries
Election won: 2010 Senate election.
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Defeating Democratic incumbent Russ Feingold
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Campaign: 2010 Senate election.
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Campaign: 2010 general election.
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Campaign: 2010 Republican primary election.
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2007· 1 entry
“All-American Presidential Forum”
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1997· 1 entry
And remained CEO until he was elected to the Senate in 2010
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1977· 2 entries
With a bachelor's degree in business and accounting
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Studied at University of Minnesota, Bachelor of Science (1977).
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1955· 1 entry
Born 1955-04-08.
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