The Democrats’ hopes rest on him
Tuesday’s elections will be decided in a handful of fluctuating states. In the rural west, Mandela Barnes is fighting for every single vote. Some see the 35-year-old as a new Obama.
“I’m used to being an election loser”: Mandela Barnes, Wisconsin Senate candidate.
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In Milwaukee’s “Sam’s Place Jazz Café”, about fifty citizens are seated at bistro tables waiting for Democratic Senate candidate Mandela Barnes. The café is a well-known meeting place in the African American neighborhood of Harambee. There is lively music in the background, but the atmosphere seems depressed.
