 On March 26, 2020, Risser announced that he would not run for re-election in November 2020.During the protests in Wisconsin, Risser, along with the 13 other Democratic State Senators, left the state to deny the State Senate a quorum on Governor Scott Walker's "Budget Repair" legislation.Risser was a delegate to both the 1960 Democratic National Convention and the 1964 Democratic National Convention.