The Associated Press reported that it was the $25 million liberal candidate spent by the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Elon Musk and defeated her conservative rival on Tuesday.
Susan Crawford was very high in the spring election, and Susan Crawford easily defeated Judge Brad Schimel, who was loyal to President Trump and was helped by Mr. Musk, the president’s billionaire policy aide.
Not only did Mr. Musk put the money into the competition, he also ran in person in the state, even wearing a cheese head. However, the character he starred in seemed to infuriate his anger even more at his democracy.
The barrier to spending in the game is almost likely to be the first few records of a judicial election. Justice Crawford had a lead of about nine points Tuesday night until about 95% of the votes.
“Today, Wisconsin boycotts unprecedented attacks on our democracy, fair elections and the Supreme Court,” she said in her victory speech Tuesday night. “Wisconsin stands up and says there is no price for justice. Our courts are not for sale.”
For Democrats, the result is a shock of momentum. Since Mr. Trump returned to the White House in January and worked with Mr. Musk to drastically narrow federal institutions, shelve the coalition of the international community and change the government’s relationship with the national university, ethnic minorities, immigration and corporate worlds, they have been on the rhetoric of costumes along the coast to the coast.
Judge Crawford’s victory in special elections for state legislative seats in Iowa and Pennsylvania, and a defeat in Louisiana’s four Republican-backed state referendums, the victory of Judge Crawford made the party a forefront for the first time since last November. Her victory shows that in at least one case, Mr. Musk’s seemingly endless political cash reserves inspired more Democrats than Republicans.
The game may also have an impact on controlling the congressional control, when Republican Razor-Thin Edge was strengthened when two Florida seats were held in the special election on Tuesday. Democrats quietly argue that Crawford’s victory would pave the way for Wisconsin liberals’ Supreme Court ordering a new congressional map that could help Democrats beat one or two Republican congressmen in the state.
Judge Crawford of Dane County himself attended a meeting with Liberal donors in January that was considered a chance to place two seats in the game, a prospect that was opposed by representative Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic leader in the room. Republicans led by Mr. Musk have tried to make this possibility a major focus of their campaign to beat her.
Mr. Musk described the interests of the game in almost apocalyptic words, and he seemed to represent Judge Schimer’s campaign to be more personal than the candidate himself. Never a donor attempted to influence the U.S. judicial competition to such a degree, and few people invest comparable sums in elections they themselves did not participate in. Through his super PAC, Mr. Musk underwrote a $11.5 million ground game targeting voters urging them to help Mr. Trump by supporting Judge Schimel. Media tracking company Adimpact said an independent organization with Musk Ties spent $7.7 million on television advertising.
Mr. Musk also offered Wisconsin $100 to sign a petition against the “radical judge.”
By Tuesday, his super PAC offered voters $50 to post a picture of Wisconsin residents outside the polling station.
Judge Crawford, 60, won a 10-year term victory, maintaining a majority in court with a 4-3 liberalist, which is expected to make key decisions on abortion and labor rights in the coming months. It may soon determine the legitimacy of the state’s congressional district line, which were proposed by the Republican-controlled state legislature and have delivered six of the eight house seats to the Republican Party in evenly split states.
Liberals may have to maintain a majority by at least 2028. Conservative judges in court face re-election over the next two years. Unless the free justice evacuates her seat and is replaced by the governor, conservatives will not flip their seats until 2028.
By controlling the court, formal nonpartisan elections are always expensive and hard, but Mr. Musk’s investment began in mid-February, bringing bets, attention and cash into the state. The billionaire’s involvement, whose electric vehicle company Tesla, sued Wisconsin in January to seek the right to open a dealer in the state, turned what would have been a state game into something close to the national bat signal to support Democratic judge Judge Crawford.
“It’s a test and the whole world is watching,” Wisconsin Democratic Chairman Ben Wikler told supporters Monday at the closing rally of Judge Crawford. “It’s an opportunity for us to show that moments are so terrifying across the country that we still believe in democracy.”. ”
With the support of Wisconsin and Democratic Democrats, including the governor and Democrats in Minnesota, and with Minnesota Senator Bernie Sanders, Judge Crawford raised a massive national candidate on March 17, during which time Crawford raised $17 million in fundraising, a tough generalist who did not sentence the state candidates to make people confused at the trial.
Schimel, 60, of Waukesha County, a longtime Trump big fan, dressed up for Trump as Halloween last year, hugged the president and Mr. Musk with waves of Musk in the final weeks of the campaign. He wore the president’s signature to make the United States run brilliantly again and appeared with Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk in late March.
Republicans in Wisconsin have made unabashed efforts to get Judge Sheemel to serve as the state’s attorney general before losing re-election in 2018, an embodiment of the Trump movement. Wisconsin Republican chairman Brian Schimming said his goal was to get 60% of Mr. Trump’s voters from November last year to advance to Judge Schimming by Tuesday.
Like Judge Crawford, Judge Schimer identified the contest as an existential threat to the nation and the nation.
“Our Republic will not survive if we don’t restore the court, right?” he told supporters at a rally in Stotton, Wisconsin last week. “Frankly, they took one of the branches through bench legislation.”
During the campaigning process of Mr. Musk representing Judge Schimel, he showed his wealth, but often compared to the match at hand.
He said on Sunday night he headed to Green Bay, where he brought a $1 million check to voters and the winners played a game among those who signed the petition. One recipient happened to be the chairman of the UW Republican College, and he joined Mr. Musk’s Super PAC to him a few days ago.
But Mr. Musk spent several minutes in his two-hour speech, speaking to Judge Schimer and the upcoming election. In an unedited TED talk, Mr. Musk provided an extended monologue about immigration policy, the so-called social security system and the future of artificial intelligence, which did not solve the court contest, except to raise a series of questions from the audience.
When Mr. Musk did address the reasons for the visit, he made the election in the most important way, suggesting that Wisconsin voters were the first domino in a process that could change the future of civilization.
“What happened on Tuesday was a vote on political parties to control the U.S. House, which is why it is so important,” Musk said. “While any party controls the houses to a large extent controls the country and then guides the process of Western civilization. I think this is one of those things that don’t seem to affect the fate of mankind as a whole, but I think that will affect.”
Wisconsin Democrats and other campaigns related to Judge Crawford’s campaign have confused the whole plot. Mr. Musk, though associated with Mr. Trump, was welcomed among conservative voters, but did not emphasize public safety or even closeness with the president – a question that Democrats believe is likely to help Schimel Sway Republican judges vote.
Instead, they believe that this is the latest evidence that a general election candidate, Mr. Trump, can truly win.
Jess Bidgood Report from Stotton, Wisconsin.
