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The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Susan Crawford wins Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election, NBC News projects

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

NBC News

Policy, Msnbc, Politics, President, Washington, Congress, Government, Senate, News

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on The Last Word: NBC News projects Susan Crawford wins the Wisconsin Supreme Court seat, beating Trump-Musk candidate Brad Schimel. And Sen. Cory Booker makes history with a 25-hour Senate speech. Shaq Brewster, House Democratic Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, and Ben Wikler join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0

Now it's time for the last word with Lawrence.

0:03.0

So Donald Lawrence is back tonight and just in time.

0:07.4

Lawrence, we missed you so much.

0:09.0

Well, Rachel, it is so great to be back.

0:11.0

And this result in Wisconsin is a huge, huge defeat for Elon Musk, who, as we saw, personally went there, went full cheesehead, thinking what,

0:25.5

that's how to appeal to people in Wisconsin, and handing out those million-dollar checks,

0:30.9

literally trying to buy the election physically doing the buying on TV.

0:42.2

So this is just a huge setback for Elon Musk and therefore for Donald Trump. When I first saw the news at the end of last week that Musk was going to

0:48.3

not just put his money into this race, but that he was going to physically go to Wisconsin, do a

0:53.3

campaign event, do this stunt where he pays voters, and do this whole thing again.

0:57.0

I thought, you know, that is great news for the Democrats, because there are few people in American public life who are as underwater in terms of the way the American public views them as Elon Musk is.

1:10.4

But, you know, seeing the way that Mr.

1:13.3

Musk behaved in Wisconsin, seeing the way that like MAGA media portrayed this as something that

1:18.7

was actually going to help that candidate there, I started to wonder like, you know, maybe I don't,

1:23.6

maybe I'm looking at the wrong polls. Maybe they're seeing something else that I'm not seeing.

1:27.0

Maybe Elon Musk is going to help this guy.

1:30.0

But this is to have this margin within less than an hour,

1:34.5

to have this call within less than an hour of polls closing,

1:37.6

with the kind of margin, it looks like it's going to end up there in Wisconsin.

1:40.0

This is just a kick in the proverbial teeth to the White House and to mischermas.

1:45.6

I had certainly been told not to expect a call before 11 p.m.

1:50.6

And therefore, write as much TV show as you want because, you know, you're not going to have the breaking news moment.

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