Liberal Dane County Judge Susan Crawford defeated conservative Waukesha County Judge Brad Simel On Tuesday, he won the coveted seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Associated Press Called At 10:16pm on Tuesday, Crawford raced 55.8% of the vote and Shimmel raced 44.3%. The race for the Supreme Court seats in major battlefield states attracted the attention of the public, with many viewing the election results as a disposition of voters’ attitudes towards President Donald Trump in the first few months.
The righteousness of the current position Anne Walsh Bradley announcement She wouldn’t seek re-election after her term expired in April and July 2024. Bradley was the first one was selected He was in 1995 to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
The state saw the turnout for a massive early voting ahead of Tuesday’s election. line up 600,000 votes. Approximately 1.8 million voted in Wisconsin’s 2023 Supreme Court election. (Related: Exclusive – Conservative Groups Start AD Blitz in the Important 2025 Judicial Race)
Although Wisconsin’s state Supreme Court elections are officially nonpartisan, the court reversed to a liberal majority in 2023 in the election of Justice Janet Protasievich for the first time in more than a decade.
Wisconsin’s High Stakes 2025 Judicial Election was the most expensive in US history. As of Monday, the judicial campaign and external entities had spent more than $90 million on the race. totalling From the Brennan Center for Justice.
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“It’s unfolding like a presidential election,” says Matt Smith, political director at Wyson TV in Milwaukee. I said Diane Macedo from ABC News Live will be in March. “We’re turning on television for local broadcasters across Wisconsin. There’s a flood of political ads that say it’s technically a nonpartisan judicial race, but this is a completely political race. It’s becoming a true litmus test for the first 100 days of the Trump administration.”
On Sunday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court rejected a last-minute attempt from Democrat Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Cowl to stop Elon Musk from handing out $1 million payments to individual voters ahead of Tuesday’s election. Trump approved Shimmel on March 21 and wrote on social media post That’s the voter Who “believe in common sense” should be voted early as a Republican candidate.
“Brad Simel’s opponent, Susan Crawford, is a disaster!” Trump wrote Sunday post A true society. “She is on the far left, and even her own party, the radical Democrat, wants nothing to do with her. Wisconsin values are fully expressed by Brad Simel. He is conservative, strong, and his opponent throws our country at him, and Wisconsin votes for complete chaos.”
Trump swept all seven battlefield states in the November 2024 presidential election. victory 49.7% of Wisconsin’s votes compared to 48.9% of former vice president Kamala Harris.
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