UNDATED (Wisconsin Radio Network) – U.S. Senator Ron Johnson wants Donald Trump to retract his criticism of a federal judge.
The Republican presidential candidate has said U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who was born in Indiana to Mexican parents, cannot be impartial in a lawsuit against Trump University.
The presumptive nominee has been under fire from Democrats over the comments, who argue Republicans who disagree with Trump should condemn his racist comments and withdraw support from his candidacy.
A spokesman for Johnson said Monday that the Wisconsin Republican “disagrees, just as he has in the past.” Spokesman Brian Reisinger said Johnson will hold both candidates accountable when they’re wrong.
Johnson’s opponent, Democrat Russ Feingold, called Trump’s language “disqualifying for him to be president.”
CAMPAIGN AD RELEASED
Meantime, Johnson has released his first television ad in his battle against Feingold.
The ad shows Johnson on the floor of the Oshkosh-based manufacturer Pacur, a company he helped build and was CEO of before winning the U.S. Senate race in 2010.
“Career politicians manufacture hogwash. I manufacture plastic,” Johnson says in the video, taking a shot at Feingold.
In a statement to the AP, Feingold spokesman Michael Tyler says, “Senator Johnson is not manufacturing anything now, he’s just a typical politician who votes time and time again to send Wisconsin’s jobs overseas.”
(Additional reporting by WTAQ’s Jeff Flynt)
