Liberal judge wins Wisconsin Supreme Court election despite Elon Musk's giveaways to voters

Tonight, the people of Wisconsin squarely rejected the influence of Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and billionaire special interests,

Martin said in a statement

Brad Schimel wants to make sure women don't have the right to make their own health care decisions. If he wins, that right is gone,

Crawford said in a recent ad

Despite Republicans' best efforts to buy this seat, Wisconsin voters showed up for their values and future. While Trump dismantles programs that taxpayers have earned, support, and are counting on, voters across the country are turning to state Democrats who are delivering on promises to lower costs and expand opportunities,

Williams said in a statement

Wisconsinites' next opportunity to rebuke GOP extremism and affirm Democratic leadership is the state legislative elections in 2026. After several cycles of laying the groundwork to build power in Wisconsin, the DLCC and state Democrats made massive gains in 2024 under fair maps. You can bet we're laser-focused on finishing the job and flipping both chambers this cycle,

Williams said

Ken Martin (politician)democratic National Committee Chair

As soon as possible, we need to be able to revisit that and have fairer lines,

Jeffries said during an event with Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin

If the same provision that I was involved in litigating back in those early days was challenged again, I most likely would recuse,

Crawford said

There are a lot of low propensity voters in today’s Trump GOP, meaning these voters only turn out in droves when Trump’s name is at the top of the ballot,

O’Connell said

It’s a 15-point swing in a safe district toward the other party and Democrats have not done well in either of these districts for many, many, many years and they just cut the Republican winning margin in half, so that says something,

said Jon Reinish, a prominent Democratic strategist

It’s a special election, you have to look at the turnout, I mean there were twice as many people that voted, I don’t think you could read much into it,

he said, speaking to reporters after his race had been called on Tuesday night

I frankly think we need to kick Elon to the curb, and I see tonight’s results as further evidence of that fact,

said a GOP Senate aide, speaking on the condition of anonymity

If you apply tonight’s overperformance in FL-01 and FL-06 across the House battlefield in 2026, Democrats would be on track to flip over 40 seats,

the group said in a memo on Tuesday night

This is pretty decisive. No, it’s not a Trump landslide, but it’s a very clear verdict– that the people of CD 6 and CD 1 want a Republican sitting in this seat, and we are very happy that voters are wise and figured this out,

he said

Cheater, cheater!” ... You’ve got to accept the results.”

During his concession speech, one woman was heard chanting ... Schimel responded

Susan P. Crawfordjudge

This was the most important thing,

Musk posted on X in response to a post on voter ID, just hours after Crawford was unofficially declared to have beaten Brad Schimel in the most expensive judicial election in American history and the first major electoral test of Trump’s presidency

Steve Israelformer Representative

It’s indisputably good for Democrats to win special elections, and those results are clear indicators, they’re like the barometric pressure in a midterm environment,

said former Representative Steve Israel of New York, who led the House Democratic campaign arm roughly a decade ago

What this election is about is turnout, and so while Democrats are a very small percentage of this area, they’re really, really, really mad,

Mr. Fine of Florida said in an interview on Tuesday morning

They’re going to be dealing with the political environment that Trump has created, which is not good right now for Republicans,

he added

We didn’t want to go looking for a fight with the richest man in the world, but when the fight comes to you, you don’t back down. That’s also a big lesson,

said Patrick Guarasci, a senior adviser to Ms. Crawford’s campaign

Jeremy Lambconor

The anxiety and concern on our side is very real, and people are looking for ways to translate that into action,

Mr. Lamb said in an interview this week

Sarah Godlewskipolitician

They are watching how Donald Trump is empowering a billionaire who is unelected to cut their veterans’ services programs, and yet their representatives, these Republican congressional members, aren’t showing up,

said Sarah Godlewski, the Wisconsin secretary of state