U.S. Senator Ron Johnson: ‘ISIS Needs To Be Defeated and Eliminated’ [AUDIO]

Four years ago, no one though of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold as a vulnerable incumbent. However, in that Republican wave year of 2010 a businessman named Ron Johnson slowly began to put the race on the radar screen of political pundits across the country. He would eventually win the race by five points.

Could a similar story be playing out in Illinois this year? Nobody thinks of Sen. Dick Durbin as being a vulnerable incumbent, but two recent polls show State Sen. Jim Oberweis within striking distance. Sen. Johnson joined "Riley & Scot" this morning and we asked him about the possibility. The answer is about the 7:00 mark in the video below.

We also asked him about the President's comments that he wanted to get the terror group ISIS into a "manageable problem":

I don't believe you can contain [ISIS] and I don't think you can manage them. I think they have to be defeated and eliminated. And again, everybody made a big deal that President Obama said he didn't have a strategy. You know, the fact of the matter is he's had a strategy -- it's been a strategy of apologizing for America and withdrawing from the world.

We tried to get the Senator to to boast about his Packers' upcoming season, but he refused to make a prediction on whether Green Bay could hold off the Bears again this year. Here's our full interview with Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin: