Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers and U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) joined President Biden in the Democratic Party’s official kickoff to the midterm campaign season at Milwaukee’s Laborfest on the lakefront, Monday. “Notably absent,” according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel was Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, who is challenging uber-MAGA Republican incumbent Ron Johnson for his U.S. Senate seat this November 8. 

“He couldn’t be here, but he’s going to be your next United States senator,” Biden said. Barnes participated in a Laborfest parade before the president’s arrival, according to the Journal Sentinel. 

Later, Biden attended a Labor Day parade in Pittsburgh, accompanied by Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler, and others, according to the Pittsburgh Press-Gazette. There, officials touted the nation's highest support of labor unions in 57 years during the Biden administration, reaching 68% approval according to a recent Gallup Poll.

Biden used the appearances to repeat his warning from Independence Hall in Philadelphia last Thursday about the dangers of Trump supporters to our democracy: “Not every Republican is a MAGA Republican. Not every Republican embraces that extreme ideology," he told the Milwaukee crowd. "But the extreme MAGA Republicans have chosen to go backwards, full of anger, violence, hate and division.”

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