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  • Wisconsin and Florida races give jolt of energy to Democrats in fight against Trump

    Democrats motivated by deep anger from voters who say party isn’t doing enough to coalesce around a strategy

    Democrats were the clear winners in election contests on Tuesday that offered a temperature check on the popularity of Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

    In Wisconsin, Susan Crawford, a liberal judge backed by Democrats, won a seat on the state supreme court, defeating her conservative opponent Brad Schimel by 10 points (Trump carried the state by one point in November). Crawford won despite Musk and allied groups spending a staggering $25m on Schimel’s behalf. Every single county in Wisconsin shifted in Democrats’ favor compared to the 2024 election.

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  • Democrats hail major win as Susan Crawford delivers blow to Trump and Musk in Wisconsin

    Liberal judge Susan Crawford wins race for seat on Wisconsin supreme court in litmus test for Donald Trump’s and Elon Musk’s popularity

    Susan Crawford’s victory in the race for a seat on the Wisconsin supreme court has been hailed as a major win for Democrats after the contest was framed as a referendum on Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s popularity.

    Crawford, a liberal judge from Dane county, defeated Brad Schimel, a former Republican attorney general and conservative judge from Waukesha county, after Musk and groups associated with the tech billionaire spent millions to boost his candidacy in what became the most expensive judicial contest in American history.

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  • Wisconsin and Florida voters head to polls in test of Trump’s popularity

    Conservatives bid to overturn liberal majority on Wisconsin supreme court while Florida votes to replace Mike Waltz

    US voters are headed to the polls on Tuesday in Wisconsin and Florida in elections that some see as a test of Donald Trump’s popularity and the political clout of his billionaire ally Elon Musk.

    The most closely watched contest is a battle for a seat on Wisconsin’s seven-member supreme court. Conservatives are trying to flip ideological control of the court, which currently has a 4-3 liberal majority. The contest, which features liberal judge Susan Crawford facing off against conservative Brad Schimel, will have huge consequences in the state.

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  • Special elections to give voters’ verdicts on Trump’s chaotic first months – US politics live

    Votes in several states on Tuesday could offer a glimmer of hope to Democrats

    Film director Oliver Stone will testify at a US House of Representatives hearing on Tuesday that is considering thousands of pages of documents related to the 1963 assassination of John F Kennedy released this month at the direction of President Donald Trump.

    Representative Anna Paulina Luna, chair of the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, said that lawmakers will hear from witnesses about the value of the documents.

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  • Special elections to deliver voters’ verdict on Trump’s chaotic first months

    Key elections in Florida, Texas, Arizona and Wisconsin could offer a glimmer of hope to Democrats

    Several elections on Tuesday will be a crucial test of the popularity of the chaotic and extremist first two months of Donald Trump’s second term and the clout of his close ally, Elon Musk, the world’s richest man who has been tasked with radically reforming the US federal government.

    They could also offer a glimmer of hope to Democrats – fresh off a surprise upset win in a local race in Pennsylvania last week – that their divided political party could be seeing a resurgence in its fortunes. Or, if they fail to land further blows on Republicans, it will be yet another sign that the party is destined for a long period in the wilderness amid historic lows of its popularity in recent polls.

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  • Wisconsin supreme court race a litmus test for Elon Musk’s political power

    The high-stakes race will determine which party will control a court that will rule on abortion and voting rights

    A race to determine control of the Wisconsin supreme court that has profound stakes for voting, abortion and labor rights in the state, is also shaping up to be a litmus test of Elon Musk’s political power, making it one of the most consequential elections of Donald Trump’s second term.

    Liberals currently hold a 4-3 majority on the state supreme court, but the liberal justice Ann Walsh Bradley is retiring. Susan Crawford, a liberal judge, is facing off on Tuesday against the conservative judge Brad Schimel for the seat. The winner will determine which party has control of a court that is set to rule on the future of the state’s 1849 abortion ban, collective bargaining rights and the makeup of the state’s six congressional districts.

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