The Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Is a Referendum on Elon Musk
“If you are concerned about what Elon Musk and Donald Trump are doing to this country, to this state, and to this county, raise your hand,” Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair Ben Wikler told a meeting of Democrats in Sauk County, Wisconsin, on March 6.
Practically every hand went up. “I’m detecting some potential unanimity to this question,” Wikler deadpanned.
More than 170 Democratic activists had gathered at the public library in Sauk City, a small town in a quintessential swing county in the southern part of the state, to counteract Musk’s attempt to buy a Wisconsin Supreme Court election and tip the balance of power on the court.
Two groups backed by Musk, the conservative group Building America’s Future and his own America PAC, have spent more than $11 million attacking progressive judge Susan Crawford and supporting the Trump-aligned candidate Brad Schimel in an April 1 election that will determine the 4-3 ideological majority on the state’s highest court. “Elon Musk has now plowed more money into this Supreme Court race then as far as I can tell any donor ever has in any Wisconsin judicial election,” Wikler said in Sauk City.
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