Ron Johnson Mourns Hong Loss, Notes ‘Concerning’ Trend Ahead of Midterms In Fox Interview

Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) joined Fox Business Network anchor Cheryl Casone on Wednesday to discuss a range of issues, including the prior evening’s primaries in his state.

Progressive insurgent Francesca Hong was defeated in a razor-thin race by Democratic Party establishment candidate David Crowley, who will take on Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) in the general election for Wisconsin governor. Johnson sounded the alarm on the primary vote, noting that Crowley was certainly not the candidate the GOP wanted to face and raising concern over the number of people who voted in the Democratic Party primary.

“I do want to ask you about what happened yesterday with regards to the primaries. The Democratic Socialists of America put to the test last night in Wisconsin. They lost. DSA-backed Francesca Hong lost the Democratic primary for governor by less than a percent. Just over 3,000 votes separating her and Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, who’s now going to face off against Republican Congressman Tom Tiffany in November. Senator, I want to get your thoughts on this in particular. The polling — we talked about this earlier on the program — going into this, it looked like Francesca Hong was going to walk away with this thing, and she lost,” Casone noted.

“Listen, if I relied on polls, I would have folded up shop a long time ago in all three of my elections. So no, these polls are highly unreliable,” replied Johnson, who narrowly won reelection against a progressive challenger in 2022.

“I think what’s concerning to me now — you know, we didn’t have really a contested primary for Republican governor, but we had about 500,000 Republicans come out and vote in our primary, 700,000 Democrats. That’s a 200,000-vote differential there,” Johnson continued, adding:

That’s out of concern for Tom Tiffany, and of course now he’s not going to run against Francesca Hong, he’s probably gonna have a more formidable opponent. So President Trump is going to have to encourage the people that voted for him not to vote for socialists like they did in New York, but to vote for Republicans so that he’s not facing impeachment charges in the House and that we can retain a majority in the Senate.

And without him on the ticket, his voice is going to be important, and he’ll be using that, obviously, in other ways,” Cason agreed before moving on to another topic.

Watch the clip above via Fox Business.

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