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What A Day

Musk Throws Millions Into Wisc. Supreme Court Race

What A Day

Crooked Media

News, Daily News

4.612K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Wisconsin voters will head to the polls Tuesday (if they haven’t already) to choose a new member of the State Supreme Court. The race between two state circuit court judges — liberal Susan Crawford and conservative Brad Schimel — is now the most expensive judicial race in U.S. history, in no small part because the winner will decide control of the key swing state's highest court. But also because Elon Musk and his allies have been pouring millions into the race. Ben Wikler, chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, explains what's at stake in Tuesday's race. And in headlines: President Donald Trump called up NBC to say some crazy shit, Iran rejected direct negotiations with the U.S. over its nuclear program, and the death toll from a massive earthquake in Myanmar climbed to around 1,700.

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0:00.0

It's Monday, March 31st. I'm Jane Koston, and this is what a day, the show that can't wait for April 2nd, when according to National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett, all of the reciprocal tariffs will go into effect and something will happen.

0:16.5

And so President Trump has a long-run vision of a golden age of America, and we're working really, really hard to get it out there in time.

0:23.5

But I can't give you any forward-looking guidance on what's going to happen this week.

0:27.3

The president has got a heck of a lot of analysis before him, and he's going to make the right choice up short.

0:34.0

File a me under less sure.

0:44.1

On today's show, Donald trump tells NBC some crazy shit and Iran rejects direct negotiations with the U.S. over its nuclear program. But let's start

0:50.0

in the great state of Wisconsin, home of badgers, cheese curds, and a big election this week

0:54.9

that could swing the state Supreme Court. Tomorrow, Wisconsin residents will head to the polls,

0:59.7

if they haven't already, to choose a new member of the High Court. Currently, liberals hold a

1:04.4

four-three majority, but liberal justice Anne Walsh Bradley decided not to run for re-election. Now,

1:10.0

voters are choosing between two county judges to

1:12.4

replace her, conservative Brad Schimel, who also served as a state's attorney general and liberal

1:17.4

Susan Crawford. But right now, it feels like voters are also choosing between Elon Musk and not

1:22.9

Elon Musk. Here's CBS News's Chicago affiliate.

1:26.8

An election for the Wisconsin Supreme Court is now the most expensive judicial race in

1:31.5

U.S. history due to billionaire Elon Musk and his allies spending more than $20 million

1:36.2

on the contest. That's right, the most expensive judicial race in U.S. history.

1:41.9

Roughly $80 million has been spent, according to tracking from the

1:45.1

Brennan Center for Justice. And Musk and his allies make up a quarter of that. Now, you might be

1:50.2

wondering, why is Elon Musk so very interested in this Wisconsin Supreme Court race? Is it because of

1:55.5

his deep concern over the state of democracy? Friends, almost certainly not. See, a key piece of information you

2:02.6

might want to have is that Tesla, you know, the car company Elon Musk owns, is suing the state of

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