
New fight over abortion jolts Democratic battle to take on Johnson in Wisconsin
CNN
President Joe Biden has gone from narrowly winning Wisconsin nearly two years ago to becoming an apparent liability for Democrats running there -- so much so that two of the leading candidates running for their party's US Senate nomination won't say whether he should run again.
But the Wisconsin Senate Democratic candidates are banking on two key factors to overcome an unpopular President: spotlighting GOP Sen. Ron Johnson's controversies and tapping into voters' anger that the US Supreme Court has sent Wisconsin back to an abortion ban enacted before the Civil War.
"I think it eliminates whatever advantage Republicans have," said Tom Nelson, an Outagamie County executive who's a Democrat running for Senate, about the ruling last week.

Janet Mills and her allies are counting on a gender gap to narrow Platner’s wide lead ahead of the June 9 primary to decide who will face incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins. They are betting that the unfiltered style that has brought Platner widespread attention as someone who could help Democrats reach young men will backfire with women.

As a shrinking number of Transportation Security Administration agents work to keep hourslong security lines moving despite not being paid, President Donald Trump stepped into the fray Saturday, announcing he will send Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to airports by Monday if Congress doesn’t agree to a plan to end the partial government shutdown.











