After 20-point Supreme Court loss, Wisconsin Republicans look for who's to blame
Staggered by a 20-point loss in the April Supreme Court election, Wisconsin conservatives are arguing about who’s to blame. And behind the scenes, members of the state Republican Party are split on whether Chair Brian Schimming should be fired.
The social media comments from conservatives came fast and furious after the Wisconsin Supreme Court race was called within 40 minutes of polls closing. Despite liberals winning the last three Supreme Court races by double-digits, seeing Justice-elect Chris Taylor defeat conservative Judge Maria Lazar by the biggest margin in decades hit differently.
Some conservatives immediately called for Schimming to resign or be fired, while others blamed Lazar. There was even debate on whether the Republican Party as a whole made a mistake by trading reliable, suburban, college-educated voters for more rural voters who are strongly behind President Donald Trump but much less likely to vote when he’s not on the ballot.
In an interview with WPR, Wisconsin’s longest serving governor, Republican Tommy Thompson, said the biggest problem right now are the massive margins Democrats have been able to stack up against GOP candidates in Dane and Milwaukee counties. Unofficial results show Taylor got around 234,000 more votes than Lazar there on Tuesday.
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