After purchasing the president's BFF last year, Elon Musk was drawn out to effectively buy a state Supreme Court seat in Wisconsin. Voters have other ideas.
Musk and his relevant groups have invested more than $20 million in promoting conservative candidates, former state attorney general Brad Schimel. (This $1 million raffle is especially shameless.) Musk held a town hall/rally in Green Bay on Sunday, urging people to support Schimel, who made the game “one of those things that don’t seem to affect the fate of mankind as a whole, but I think that will.”
In helping this might be the most expensive court contest ever, Musk also turned it into a referendum for himself and his role in the Trump administration. Schimel blesses his heart, probably the greatest candidate in democratic history – he is not – it doesn't matter. This became all about Elon and Donald Trump fell.
Wisconsin's answer: No, thank you, Blue. Despite Musk's hysterical warning and the Cheeseman title, Schimer's rival Susan Crawford won about 10 points, securing a liberal majority in the court.
Democrats desperately need victory are happy. But Republicans should also quietly rejoice—especially, Congressman increasingly unelected billionaires cumbersomely hacking government programs on which Americans rely. So scared and angry voters. So many fragile town halls. So many electoral crises.
Musk's money-making tentacles are tightly tangled around the president. To begin unraveling him and moving him to the door, Republican lawmakers need to prove that he is hurting Trump’s popularity and threaten Republican unified control over Washington. Musk's expensive Wisconsin slippers are a big red warning flag waved by Republican members. It is wise for them to seize this moment in this failure, without the opportunity to remind the President of how political losers his partners are.
Waiting will only make things worse. Doge is just warming up. When the election was decided in November this year, Musk would have less damage to the country and the Republican Party. Massive layoffs by federal workers are expected to damage the fate of Chinese Republicans in Virginia's governor race, which is seen as a key political field.
By the middle of next year? It can be argued that voters can go from worship to bloodthirsty when people start messing with their social security and Medicaid.
