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The 7

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

The 7

The Washington Post

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🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Tuesday briefing: Elections in Florida and Wisconsin; Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’; Karen Read; storm forecast; Hooters; and more


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0:00.0

There are important elections today in Wisconsin and Florida.

0:10.6

Central states are about to get some truly wild weather.

0:14.3

And it's not goodbye, but see you later, to Hooters.

0:18.7

That's some of what we'll get to on the seven from the Washington Post.

0:22.5

I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Tuesday, April 1st, but we will not be fooling you. Let's get you caught up

0:28.8

with today's seven stories. Number one. Voters are headed to the polls in Florida and Wisconsin. Today is the first big

0:42.2

electoral test for President Donald Trump since he was re-elected in November. Voters in Florida will elect

0:49.3

replacements for Matt Gates and Michael Waltz in the House, where Republicans hold a slim advantage.

0:56.0

And over in Wisconsin, voters will choose a new member of their state's Supreme Court.

1:02.2

That race has become the most expensive judicial contest in U.S. history.

1:07.6

Right now, the court has a four to three liberal majority.

1:13.7

Republicans, including Trump and his billionaire advisor, Elon Musk, are backing Brad Schimmel. Here's Schimmel speaking to a local ABC news

1:20.4

station on Sunday. We have to restore objectivity of this court. We have to put the court back in its

1:25.9

proper role, where it's not making the law.

1:28.3

It's not going through a political agenda. It is applying the law the way the legislature writes it

1:33.3

to the facts of the case. Democrats have thrown their support behind Susan Crawford. She spoke to

1:39.7

MSNBC yesterday about Musk's involvement in the race. I think that Elon Musk has a number of

1:46.0

interests here. One is that one of his companies, Tesla, has a lawsuit against the state of Wisconsin

1:52.1

that's moving its way through the Wisconsin state courts. So he's got some stakes in the judiciary

1:58.4

in Wisconsin, and he wants to have some impact and influence over judges here.

2:03.7

As part of his efforts to elect Schimel, Musk handed out million-dollar checks to two Wisconsin voters on Sunday.

2:11.4

He said he was just trying to draw attention to the race.

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