Democrats celebrate victory over Trump and Musk in Wisconsin

The Elon Musk factor-his fortune and his role as Trump advisor and demolition hammer of the federal government-has not helped the intended Republicans but the Democrats in the first crucial elections since Donald Trump is again president. On Tuesday, voters in ‘Swing State’ Wisconsin voted in convincing majority a left candidate into the Supreme Court. The judge Susan Crawford, supported by Democrats, defeated her competitor from Republican Huize Brad Schimel by almost 55 percent against more than 45 percent.

The race was hardly about local or legal affairs, but was presented as a referendum for the first two months that Trump and billionaire Musk are in the service in Washington. In Florida, where two seats of the House of Representatives had to be filled, Republicans retained both. But the margins with which the candidates won on Tuesday faded at the victories of their predecessors and of Trump in November.

Billionaire Elon Musk pumped an estimated 21 million dollars in the Schimel campaign in Wisconsin. He paid his campaign spots, funded mobilizing red areas, handed out money to his voters and held a rally there. There he said that « the whole fate of humanity » was at stake. Trump did not show himself in the state.

The resistance they call turned out to be greater than the support that was for sale. « I never thought I would ever have to compete against the richest man in the world, » Crawford said in her victory speech about Musk. « And (…) would beat him. »

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REPORTING BY DISTICLES

The Democrats retain their 4-3 majority in the Supreme Court. That will mainly have an impact on the state, where this court will judge, for example, about the right to abortion. But the consequences can also be substantial for national politics. The judges can determine the redesign of the constituencies for the House of Representatives, the boundaries of which have currently been drawn to the benefit of the Republicans. They now occupy six of the eight seats of Wisconsin.

A fairer signed card could mean that both parties distribute the seats in 2026 four-to-four. And that can be decisive for the majority in Washington.

Trumps victory in Wisconsin in the presidential election was the smallest of all key statements. He won there in November with a difference of 0.86 percentage points. However, when counting 90 percent of the votes, the Democrats supported by the Democrats, however, was more than 9 percentage points on Schimel on Tuesday.

Her victory is a first indication of the unpopularity of Trump’s policy, which, in addition to the disposal of immigrants, focuses on import duties, the dismantling of the federal government and seems to be heading for a constitutional crisis. But traditionally, the opposition party is doing well in such an interim election. The turnout among Democrats is often better than among Republicans.

In total, around one hundred million dollars went into the race for a decisive seat in the Wisconsin Supreme Court. That is twice as much as in 2023, when an election at a seat in the same court already broke all records.

Elections in Florida

Democrats also hoped to make elections in Florida exciting. There, two districts chose a successor for the Republicans who left since their election in November. Mike Waltz (now National Security Advisor) and Matt Gaetz (for behaved but not appointed as Minister of Justice).

The Conservatives Randy Fine and Jimmy Patronis won their seats with the same convenience as Right Crawford. But where they now left their democratic opponents with a more than 10 percentage point difference, Trump, Waltz and Gaetz won these districts five months ago with a margin of more than 30 percent.

Democrats are now celebrating that their voters did not write them off after the debacle in November, lost the White House and the Congress. They are also very happy with The 25 -hour speech That Senator Cory Booker gave Monday and Tuesday. But the interim elections where part of the power in Washington is really at stake, in November next year, are still far away. They can at most hope that some Republican Congressmen dare to openly take Trump and Musk, because it can harm their chances in those elections.

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