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Related: About this forumElon Musk Fails In Attempt to Buy Wisconsin Supreme Court as Judge Susan Crawford Beats Brad Schimel
We go to Madison, Wisconsin, to speak with The Nation's John Nichols about Tuesday's pivotal state Supreme Court election, in which liberal Judge Susan Crawford convincingly defeated conservative candidate Brad Schimel. Crawford's election is a major victory for Democrats after billionaire Trump ally Elon Musk poured about $25 million into the Wisconsin race, helping to make it the most expensive judicial election in U.S. history. "This is a huge signal from a battleground state that Americans are genuinely upset, genuinely angry, I think, with Trump and with Musk," says Nichols. Tuesday also saw a pair of special House elections in Florida where Republicans held both seats, helping to maintain the party's narrow majority in Congress. While Democrats were unlikely to flip the deep-red districts, Nichols notes "there was a huge shift in both of the Florida districts toward the Democratic candidates."
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Elon Musk Fails In Attempt to Buy Wisconsin Supreme Court as Judge Susan Crawford Beats Brad Schimel (Original Post)
Uncle Joe
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sop
(13,393 posts)1. At least there's still one state in the nation with a plurality of sane voters.
Here in Florida we're experiencing the effects of a toxic red tide from the ever-increasing number of insane red émigrés from other states.
louis-t
(24,128 posts)2. The cries of "YOU CHEATED!!!" start in 5, 4, 3, 2.....
Count on it.
riversedge
(74,774 posts)3. You wasted your money trying to buy #Wisconsin votes.