Wisconsin Supreme Court election results: What happened and why it matters

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

72% : Trump won the three states again in November last year.
61% : Ahead of the Wisconsin vote, Schimel earned an endorsement from Trump.
61% : According to a Brennan Center fact sheet, studies prove that non-white people are less likely to carry their ID to polls.
60% : Trump had won in this county in the presidential election by 7 percentage points.
60% : The department is responsible for handling public education in the state.
54% : Separately, Democrat-backed Jill Underly defeated Republican-backed Brittany Kinser to continue leading the state's Department of Public Instruction.
51% : Musk, who spent about $250m to help Trump during his presidential campaign, promised to pay volunteers $20 for each voter they recruited before the Tuesday vote.
46% : The owner of Tesla and SpaceX rose to prominence during Trump's presidential campaign last year and currently handles the cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has been laying off tens of thousands of federal employees.
46% : Underly's win comes days after Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education, making education a responsibility of the states rather than the federal government.
44% : Wisconsin was a swing state in the November 2024 election and Trump defeated Democrat former Vice President Kamala Harris by a narrow 0.8 percentage points.
41% : On March 22, Trump posted in support of the conservative candidate on his Truth Social platform.
39% : "All Voters who believe in Common Sense should GET OUT TO VOTE EARLY for Brad Schimel," Trump wrote.
36% : Wisconsin Supreme Court vote a test for Trump agenda, Musk influence Democrat-backed liberal judge Susan Crawford won a seat on Wisconsin's Supreme Court on Tuesday, after a closely watched race that became a proxy battle between President Donald Trump's administration and the opposition.
36% : In the 2016 election, Trump flipped Wisconsin alongside other blue wall states Pennsylvania and Michigan, all three of which were won back by former Democratic President Joe Biden in 2020.
35% : The contest also became a litmus test of the political influence of Trump and Elon Musk, his ally and the world's richest man, who poured millions of dollars into supporting Crawford's opponent, Republican-backed conservative Brad Schimel.
19% : "Brad Schimel is running against Radical Left Liberal Susan Crawford, who has repeatedly given child molesters, rapists, women beaters, and domestic abusers 'light' sentences," Trump wrote, without any evidence to back his accusations.

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