The liberal candidate won in the first major statewide battleground election of 2025, protecting the progressive majority on the Wisconsin’s supreme court, in a race that became a referendum on President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, and broke records as the most expense court election in the nation’s history.
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PAWAUKEE,Wis.—Theliberal-leaningcandidatewonahigh-profileandhistoricallyexpensiveelectioninWisconsinonTuesday,protectingprogressivemajoritycontrolofthebattlegroundstate’sSupremeCourt,whichislikelytoruleoncrucialissueslikecongressionalredistricting,votingandlaborrights,andabortion.
DaneCountyCircuitCourtJudgeSusanCrawforddefeatedBradSchimel,aformerstateattorneygeneralwhocurrentlyservesasastatecircuitcourtjudgeinWaukeshaCounty.Schimel,theconservative-alignedcandidateintherace,wasendorsedbyPresidentDonaldTrump.
WithamassiveinfusionofmoneyfromDemocrat-alignedandRepublican-alignedgroupsfromoutsideWisconsin,whichturnedtheraceintothemostexpensivejudicialelectioninthenation’shistory,thecontestpartiallytra
