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“We did a lot in Wisconsin, but we fell short. We must realize and appreciate that we are the LOW PROP party now,” he said in an X post, referring to low-propensity voters who don’t regularly cast ba...
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Republican observers and other experts say Elon Musk's involvement in Brad Schimel's Wisconsin Supreme Court campaign backfired as a strategy.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin voted Tuesday for Jill Underly to remain as the state’s top education official during President Donald Trump’s second term, choosing the Democratic-backed incumbent over a Republican-supported critic.
The liberal candidate in the state’s Supreme Court race benefited from outsize Democratic turnout as counties swung left across the state.
Record turnout and a backlash against Trump and Elon Musk, who had largely hijacked the campaign, played a role.
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President Donald Trump has yet to publicly weigh in on Tuesday night’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election results after calling eventual winner Susan Crawford a “liberal lunatic.” Trump posted up a storm on his Truth Social media platform after Republicans were victorious Tuesday night in two U.S. House special elections in Florida.
The Midwest state’s voters rejected an all-out blitz by the billionaire to get a conservative on its supreme court.
Judge Susan Crawford preserved liberals’ narrow majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court Tuesday by defeating conservative Brad Schimel, but in a way the real loser of the election was billionaire Elon Musk.