Sen. Ron Johnson announces run for reelection amid controversy over vaccine statements

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., announced on Sunday that he will run for a third term in the U.S. Senate, after months of teasing a run.

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., announced on Sunday that he will run for a third term in the Senate, after months of teasing a run.

"During the 2016 campaign, I said it would be my last campaign and final term. That was my strong preference, and my wife's—we both looked forward to a normal private life," Johnson wrote in a Wall Street Journal opinion article published Sunday morning, which he also shared on his campaign Twitter account.

"Neither of us anticipated the Democrats' complete takeover of government and the disastrous policies they have already inflicted on America and the world, to say nothing of those they threaten to enact in the future.

"Nor did we anticipate the pandemic, the government's failed response to it, the loss of freedom that has resulted, and the tyrannical approach taken by the elites who have created and maintained a state of fear that allows them to exercise control over Americans' lives."