Ireland Owens
Judge of the Liberal County Data Susan Crawford defeated the conservative judge of Waukes, Brad Schimel, recording on Tuesday, noting the desired place in the Supreme Court Wisconsin.
Associated Press called The race at 22:16 on Tuesday, from Crawford to 55.8 percent of the votes and Schimel at 44.3 percent. . race In the case of the Supreme Court of the Supreme Court in Key Battle Fresh, it drew attention to national attention, and many perceived the election results as a Bellwether for voters’ attitudes towards President Donald Trump after the first months of office.
Current judge Ann Walsh Bradley announced In April 2024, she will not look for re -election after her term of office in July. Bradley was first chosen to the Supreme Court Wisconsin in 1995.
In the country, it recorded a high attendance of early voting before Tuesday’s elections, unsurpassed 600,000 votes. About 1.8 million people voted in the election of the Supreme Court in Wisconsin in 2023.
Although the elections of the Supreme Court in Wisconsin are officially impartial, the court for the first time in over a decade in 2023 turned to the liberal majority choice of Justice Janet Protasiewicz.
High Wisconsin rates in 2025. Court elections were the most steep in US history. From Monday, court campaigns and external entities spent over $ 90 million on the race, as tally from Brennan Center for Justice.
“It takes place like an election in the presidential style”, Matt Smith, political director at Wisn-TV Milwaukee, he said Diane Macedo from ABC News Live in March. “You turn on TV, every local broadcasting station here throughout Wisconsin, you are flooded with political type advertising on what is technically impartial judicial breed, but it is a full political race. This becomes a real Litmus test for the first 100 days of Trump’s administration.”
On Sunday, the Supreme Court Wisconsin rejected The last attempt of the Democratic Prosecutor General Wisconsin Josh Kaul to stop Elon Musk From the distribution of $ 1 million, payments to individual voters before Tuesday elections. Trump supported Schimel on March 21, writing on social media post That every voters who “believe in common sense” should get out and vote early to a republican candidate.
“Brad Schimel’s opponent, Susan Crawford, is a disaster!” Trump wrote on Sunday in post About social truth. “She was so far away that even her own party, radical democrats, do not want anything to do with her. Wisconsin values ​​are perfectly represented by Brad Schimel. He is conservative, strong, and above all reasonable. His opponent is a liberal madman who will throw our country and Wisconsin, in Total Chaos. Vote for Brad Schimel!”
Trump sweeped all seven states of the battlefield in the presidential election in November 2024, victorious 49.7 percent of Wisconsin’s votes, compared to 48.9 percent of the former vice president of Kamali Harris.
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Ireland Owens is a reporter at the Daily Caller News Foundation.
