The Associated Press reported that Susan Kroford, the liberal candidate for a pivotal seat in the Supreme Court in Wisconsin, beat $ 25 million in spending from Elon Musk and defeated her conservative opponent, in a Tomorian competition that has become a decisive test of the prevailing political wind in the country.
Judge Kroford, who works in Dan County, easily defeated Judge Brad Shemel from Wakisha Province, who ran his loyalty to President Trump and was backed by record spending in the race from Mr. Musk, Assistant President of the billionaire. A hail of spending in the race may double the previous record in one judicial elections. With more than 70 percent of the votes that were calculated on Tuesday evening, Judge Krufford held the initiative From about 10 points.
She said in her speech in Al -Nasr on Tuesday night: “Today, Wisconsin has fallen into an unprecedented attack on our democracy, our just elections and our Supreme Court.” “Wisconsin stood and said loudly that justice has no price. Our courts are not for sale.”
For Democrats, the result is a tremor of momentum. They have been involved in a letter from the coast to the coast for clothes since Mr. Trump returned to the White House in January and began with Mr. Musk in an attempt to significantly reduce federal agencies, allocate international alliances and change government relations with the nation’s universities, minority groups, migrants and institutional world.
It comes in the wake of democratic victories in special elections for the state’s legislative seats in yeah and Pennsylvania And defeat Four government referendums supported by the Republic in LouisianaJudge Kroford’s victory puts the party on his front foot for the first time since last November. Her victory showed that at least in one case, the endless reserves of Mr. Musk, which apparently of political criticism have active more Democrats than Republicans.
The race can also have effects on controlling Congress, as the edge of the edge of the Republicans was fortified on Tuesday when the party holds Two seats in Florida in special elections. The Democrats quietly argued for months that the victory of Kroford would pave the way for the Supreme Court in Wisconsin Liberal for new maps of Congress, which could help Democrats defeat one or two members of the Republican Congress in the state.
Judge Krufford itself Participate in a meeting with liberal donors In January, this was placed as an opportunity to put two seats at home, a He chanted the possibility last week By the actor Hakim Jeffrez from New York, the Democratic Leader of the Chamber. The Republicans, led by Mr. Musk, sought to make this possibility the main focus of their campaign to defeat it.
Mr. Musk, Description of the competition classes in semi -local phrasesIt appears to embody the campaign on behalf of Judge Shamemil more than the same candidate. Unprecedented before, one donor sought to influence a somewhat American judicial race, and not invested a few similar sums in the elections in which they were not themselves. Through Super Pac, Mr. Musk secured a 11.5 million dollar ground game targeting voters with messages urging them to help Mr. Trump by supporting Judge Shemel. A separate organization with Musk 7.7 million dollars spent on TV ads, according to AdIMPACT, a media tracking company.
Mr. Musk Weskson also offered $ 100 per to sign a petition in opposition to “active judges”.
By Tuesday, it was Superback Voters submit 50 dollars To publish a picture of the Wisconsin residents outside the polling place.
Judge Kroford’s victory, 60, who won 10 years, maintains a majority from 4 to 3 for liberals in court, which in the coming months is preparing to make major decisions on abortion and work rights. The legitimacy of the state’s boycott lines may soon be defined, which was drawn by the legislative body of the state, which is controlled by Republicans, and delivered six out of eight home seats for the Republican Party in the state divided equally.
The liberals are likely to maintain the majority of the court until 2028. Conservative judges in the court face their re -election every two years of the next two years. Unless the liberal justice abandoned its seat and replaced by the ruling, the conservatives cannot turn the seat until 2028.
By controlling the court on the line, the non -partisan elections have always been expensive and difficult, but Mr. Musk’s investment begins in mid -February, where the bets, attention and cash flow in the state were always. The participation of the billionaire, whose company in electricity cars, Tesla, filed a lawsuit against Wisconsin in January for the right to open the agents in the state, which could not have been a state competition to something that approached the national bats signal to the Democrats to support Judge Krufford.
“This is a test, and the whole world is watching.” This is an opportunity for us to show that in a very terrifying moment at the point that we still believe in democracy“
With the support of the Democratic Party in Wisconsin and the Democratic National Committee, and with visits from prominent liberals and Democrats including the governor of the state Tim and Alzal from Minnesota and Senate member Bernie Sanders from Fairmont and Amy Cluboshr from Minnesota, Judge Croford She raised 17 million dollars in the period of collecting funds on March 17An amazing figure for a judicial candidate in the state with a little profile inside her mandate, not to mention the national level.
Judge Shemel, 60, has long been hosted by Trump, wearing his clothes last year as Trump on Halloween, President and Mr. Musk with Gustto in the last weeks of the campaign. He wore the President’s signature that made America great again on the campaign stopped and appeared with Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk on the live broadcast in late March.
The Republicans in Wisconsin did not hide their effort to make Judge Shamemil, who occupied one term as a state lawyer for the state before they lost their re -election in 2018, a personal photo of the Trump movement. Brian Shiminings, Chairman of the Wisconsin Board of Directors, said his goal is to just get 60 percent of Mr. Trump’s voters last November to turn to Judge Shemel by Tuesday.
Judge Shimmel, like Judge Kroford, formulated the race as an existential threat to the state and the nation.
“If we do not repeat the court, our republic will not survive, right?” He told supporters last week in a march in Stouton and Weiss.
In the conquest of Mr. Musk in his campaign on behalf of Judge Schimel, he made an offer to his wealth, but he was often burned from the competition on hand.
Sunday night, Travel to Green BayHe said that where he was holding a pair of $ 1 million checks for the voters, in the words of the winners, about a competition between those who signed the petition. One of the recipients coincided with the head of the Republican College in Wisconsin, who joined a third person presented by Mr. Musk’s Super Pac to a million dollars a few days ago.
But Mr. Musk spent just a few minutes of his watch from the notes that talk about the Schimel judge and the upcoming elections. In what appeared as an unrestricted Ted’s hadith, Mr. Musk delivered extended monologues about the immigration policy, alleged fraud in the social security system and the future of artificial intelligence, as well as dealing with a series of questions from the public that did not address the court race.
When Mr. Musk treated the reason for his visit, he frame the elections with maximum importance – indicating that the Wisconsin state voters were the first Domino in a process that could change the future of civilization.
“What is happening on Tuesday is a party -controlled vote in the US House of Representatives – this is why it is very important,” said Mr. Musk. “Which party dominates the home to a large extent that controls the country, which then directs the path of Western civilization. I feel that this is one of the things that may not seem to affect the fate of the entire humanity, but I think it will do so.”
Democrats in Wisconsin and others found in Judge Kroford’s campaign that the entire episode is confusing. Mr. Musk, although he is popular with conservative voters because of his relations with Mr. Trump, did not focus on public safety or even rapprochement with the president – the issues that Democrats believe have the ability to judge Scheimel Sway to the Republicans to vote.
Instead, they believed, this was the latest evidence that the general candidate for the general elections could truly lead him to victory is the same.
Jess Beddod It contributed to the reports of Stouton and WeS.
