The year's first major political test in Wisconsin becomes a...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : The April 1 election is the first major test in American politics since Trump secured a second term in November.
58% : It will serve as a crucial barometer of enthusiasm in both parties heading into next year's midterm elections and is happening in a critical battleground state that Trump won by less than a percentage point.
57% : The Waukesha County judge and former Republican attorney general attended the president´s inauguration in January, has said that he would be part of a "support system" for Trump.
52% : A win would cement his status as a conservative kingmaker, while a loss could give license to Republicans distancing themselves from his efforts to stymie government functions and eliminate tens of thousands of jobs.
51% : "This is the first major election held since Donald Trump took office," said Anthony Chergosky, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
49% : Republicans have argued that if even 60% of the voters who cast ballots for Trump in November turn out, Schimel can win, helping to drive momentum for the party heading into next year's midterms.
40% : " Still, he pledged to judge any case that comes before him on its merits - including potential cases involving Trump and Musk. Republicans have cast the race as a chance for Trump´s loyal supporters to rally around their leader and push back against liberal judges they accuse of working to stymie his agenda.
39% : "Most voters still don't know who Crawford and and Schimel are, but they have extremely strong feelings about Musk and Trump," he said.
38% : Trump had sought to have 221,000 ballots disqualified in the state´s two most Democratic counties.
35% : "There´s so many people who are desperate for a way to fight back against what Trump and Musk are doing nationally," said Ben Wikler, the Wisconsin Democratic Party chair, and see the race as an "opportunity to punch back.
25% : " Schimel has also resurfaced long-debunked conspiracies about voter fraud that Trump has embraced, urging his supporters to vote early to "make this too big to rig so we don´t have to worry that at 11:30 in Milwaukee, they´re going to find bags of ballots that they forgot to put into the machines.
16% : "And I think notably Democrats are concentrating more on Elon Musk than Donald Trump.

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