April 1, 2025: One seat, two seat; red seat … blue seat?
The Playbook Podcast
POLITICO
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🗓️ 1 April 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Presented by BP. |
| 0:05.6 | Good morning, everyone. I'm Stephen Overley. It's Tuesday, April 1st, and what's driving the day |
| 0:12.1 | could leave Democrats with the last laugh. After grappling with an identity crisis, |
| 0:17.3 | since our election defeat in November, polls indicate Democrats could pick up a seat today |
| 0:22.5 | on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Liberal judge Susan Crawford is facing off against conservative |
| 0:28.2 | Brad Schimel in the election there, an election that has attracted a staggering $100 million |
| 0:34.3 | in donations, including millions from Republican benefactor Elon Musk, and wealthy |
| 0:40.7 | Dems like George Soros and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker. |
| 0:45.7 | Control of the state's top court hangs in the balance, and both Democrats and Republicans |
| 0:50.8 | want the power to decide upcoming cases on abortion, redistricting, and other hot-button issues. |
| 0:58.9 | Meanwhile, Florida will hold special elections in two congressional districts. |
| 1:03.6 | There's the vacancy created by former Congressman Matt Gates in Florida's first district, |
| 1:09.2 | a seat that's likely to go to the state's chief financial |
| 1:11.9 | officer, Republican Jimmy Petronus. But it's the race in Florida's sixth that has Republicans |
| 1:18.6 | feeling heartburn. That's the seat National Security Advisor and Signal aficionado |
| 1:24.7 | Mike Waltz vacated earlier this year. and it's typically a deep red part of the |
| 1:30.5 | state, except Republican candidate Randy Fine is facing an unexpectedly competitive challenge from |
| 1:38.6 | Democrat Josh Weil. Politico's Politics Bureau Chief and senior political columnist Jonathan Martin is on the scene in St. Augustine this morning. |
| 1:49.1 | J. Mart, good morning, sir. |
| 1:50.7 | Good morning. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:52.4 | Of course. You're down in Florida, land of predictable politics and uneventful elections, of course. |
| 2:00.0 | There are two of those today, two special elections |
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