Wikler’s book, now awash in national attention, draws parallels between Wisconsin’s experience under Governor Scott Walker and the United States under President Donald Trump. Roys, who has served in the state legislature for nine years and ran for governor once before, could be “The Experienced Madisonian.” And Barnes, who won election to statewide office as lieutenant governor only to lose a race against Ron Johnson for U.S. Senate, could be “The Comeback Candidate.” Musk, at a rally in Green Bay, expressed his belief that this race would “affect the entire destiny of humanity.” The state’s Democratic attorney general, Josh Kaul, sued to stop this “blatant attempt” to secure votes through bribery.