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BREAKING: Liberal Judge Susan Crawford Wins Wisconsin Supreme Court Election

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We have some good news and some bad news about what went down during the Wisconsin elections tonight.

The good news is that Wisconsin voters passed an amendment to enshrine voter ID law into the state’s constitution.

This is a massive win for election integrity, and we reported on all the details right here:

HUGE WIN: Voter ID Amendment PASSES In Wisconsin

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Now, here's the bad news.

Progressive liberal Susan Crawford has won the Supreme Court election against conservative Brad Schimel.

She will be influential on key issues like abortion and union rights.

President Trump and Elon Musk had both backed Crawford's opponent, Brad Schimel, for the Supreme Court.

Elon Musk campaigned hard for Schimel, speaking at events and spending millions of dollars to help him win.

Earlier today, he posted on X, encouraging Wisconsin voters to vote for both Schimel and voter ID:

After the race was called, Susan Crawford targeted Elon Musk in her victory speech:

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NBC News reported on the results:

Liberal candidate Susan Crawford has won the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, NBC News projected Tuesday, preserving a liberal majority on the swing state’s highest court.

Crawford, a circuit court judge in Dane County, defeated Brad Schimel, a Waukesha County circuit court judge and former Republican state attorney general.

The election to replace 73-year-old Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, who announced her retirement nearly one year ago, was cast in part as a referendum on billionaire Elon Musk, who poured millions into the race to help Schimel. The winner goes on to serve a 10-year term.

Although the race was officially nonpartisan, clear ideological differences separated Crawford and Schimel — including on labor rights, abortion access and President Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 pardons, among others — as well as the groups that backed them. A slew of prominent Democrats, including former President Barack Obama, backed Crawford; Republicans by and large endorsed Schimel, including Trump.

The New York Times added:

Susan Crawford, the liberal candidate for a pivotal seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, overcame $25 million in spending from Elon Musk and defeated her conservative opponent, The Associated Press reported, in a totemic contest that became a critical test of the nation’s prevailing political winds.

Judge Crawford, who serves in Dane County, handily defeated Judge Brad Schimel of Waukesha County, who ran on his loyalty to President Trump and was powered by record spending in the race from Mr. Musk, the president’s billionaire policy aide. The barrage of spending in the race may nearly double the previous record for a single judicial election. With over 70 percent of the vote counted on Tuesday evening, Judge Crawford held a lead of roughly 10 points.

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“Today, Wisconsinites fended off an unprecedented attack on our democracy, our fair elections and our Supreme Court,” she said in her victory speech on Tuesday night. “Wisconsin stood up and said loudly that justice does not have a price. Our courts are not for sale.”

Now, if Susan Crawford won fair and square, we'll just have to take this as a loss and view it as a wakeup call ahead of mid-terms in 2026.

Charlie Kirk shared some insight on that:

We did a lot in Wisconsin, but we fell short.

We must realize and appreciate that we are the LOW PROP party now. The party has been remade.

Special elections and off-cycle elections will continue to be a problem without a change of strategy.

We are the party of welders, waiters, and plumbers. We are the party of people who work with their hands, who shower before and after work.

Politics is an afterthought for many of our supporters. They have common sense and American values, but they are voters who must be CHASED.

Democrats have become the college indoctrinated, institutionalized, and government dependent HIGH PROP party. They live for politics. It is their religion.

You may hate Donald Trump, but he resurrected a dead GOP back to life.

Voters who weren't on anyone's data rolls came out of the woodwork to vote for Donald Trump.

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Our movement must begin to fully fund the infrastructure to match the Democrat machine.

Our ideas are better. They're actually popular. But we need to match like for like. We need to out organize Democrats. We need to match their fundraising advantage.

Let Wisconsin be a wakeup call. Let it be a call to return to the frontlines. We won in November, but to save the Republican we must string together multiple victories and that starts in 2026.

However...

It is rather strange that the voter ID amendment passed with an overwhelming majority, while Brad Schimel lost.

I don't know about you, but the chances of that happening seem really suspicious to me.

Many folks are questioning the likelihood online:

Tom Fitton noted:

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Smells like fish.

Kari Lake called it out:


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