Susan Crawford, who was supported by the Democratic Party, won the Visconsin Supreme Court race on Tuesday night’s most expensive judicial election.
Usually what would have been a nonpartison judicial race in a sleep, which turned into an expensive battle between Crawford, Judge Brad Shimel of a Dan County and Judge Brad Shimel of Wukesh County, supported by the Republican Party. The campaign and their supporters have spent Over $ 81 millionAttracting endorsement and campaign showing Elon MuskVermont Democratic Sen Berney Sanders and other national political figures.
With 91% of the votes, Crawford increased Shimel from 54% to 45%, a difference of around 184,000 votes.
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The race was seen as the initial swing-state test of the voter spirit related to President Trump’s performance at the White House, but it is also an important statewide race that could swing the ideological control of the Supreme Court divided closely of Visconsin.
After going into the race, the liberals held a 4-3 majority, and the court is expected to consider matters related to abortion rights, Congress’s redistribution, Sangh’s power and voting and election rules.
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By Monday morning, 644,800 forward ballots were refunded, representing an increase of about 40% on the advance total in the 2023 judicial race of visconsin, and set a voting record that year. Milwauki and Dane’s heavy democratic counties in the Madison region have so far received about one -third of the advance ballot papers, and it is in line with its share of advance votes in about 2023.
Nineteen percent of the advance ballots came from Wow Counties in Milwauki suburbs of Wukesh, Ozauki and Washington, which is a few points more than their share in 2023.
Given that the more liberal candidate won the 2023 race by double -points, the initial polling number looked good for Crawford. But the vote of voting took place on the election day.
Musk, the world’s richest person and a colleague of Mr. Trump, personally campaigned and spent a lot in an attempt to move voters towards Shimel, which he and Mr. Trump have supported.
This effort almost collided with the Justice sitting in the Supreme Court of the state, when a suit of handing over to Kasturi was filed. $ 1 million For individual voters in a campaign program in the weekend.
The court unanimously refused to listen to the last minute attempt by the state’s Democratic Attorney General to prevent billionaire Musk from going out. In a rally immediately after the decision, Musk Two men depicted the $ 1 million checks and oversee the posters, announcing that the money was paid in exchange for money would be the spokesperson of their political group.
Five of the seven Justices of the court have supported one candidate in the race. The liberal justice of the court has supported Crawford. One of the orthodox justies of the court has supported Shimel, who wore a “Make America Great Again” hat while campaigning on Sunday.
Polls in Wisconsin closed at 8 pm on Tuesday, which is also a time limit for municipal clerks to receive ballot papers.
Kabir Khanna contributed to this report.
