Despite Musk’s millionaire investment in the campaign of rival candidate, Susan Crawford won the election and celebrated the result: ‘Today, the population defended themselves an attack unprecedented to our democracy.’
Wisconsin’s voters struck a hard blow to the second government of on Tuesday (1) with the election of a judge supported by the Democrats for the Supreme Court of the State, despite advisor to the presidency, has invested millions of dollars in the rival candidate campaign. Two months after his return to the White House, Trump celebrated at least the victory in two partial elections for the Chamber of Representatives in Florida, whose chairs will continue with the Republican Party.
“Today, residents of Wisconsin have defended themselves from an attack unprecedented to our democracy, our fair elections and our Supreme Court. And the residents of Wisconsin have risen and said aloud that justice is priceless – our courts are not for sale,” said Susan Crawford.
But in the first royal electoral test of his second term, he was defeated: the candidate Trump and the Republicans supported, Brad Schimel, lost to liberal judge Susan Crawford, according to American press. In Florida, two chairs in the House of Representatives of the United States were at stake on Tuesday to cover the vacancies left by Trump National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, and then-candidate for Attorney General Matt Gaetz, who eventually took no folder.
According to press projections, the Republicans won and Trump celebrated the two “broad” victories, emphasizing their “support” to candidates. The tycoon said nothing, however, about the result in the dispute for the Supreme Court of Wisconsin and preferred to talk about the adoption, in a referendum organized on the same day, of a measure that requires voters to present a photo ID to be able to vote. “It’s a great victory for Republicans, perhaps the biggest night,” he wrote.
Musk also did not react to Schimel’s defeat and celebrated only the result of the referendum. “It was the most important,” he wrote in his social network X. The billionaire, who leads the severe cuts in the Trump administration public spending, traveled to Wisconsin to try to increase support for Schimel. If he won, the maximum judicial instance of this State of the Great Lakes would lean to the right.
“It’s like one of those strange situations where a seemingly small election can determine the fate of Western civilization here,” said the richest man in the world in a debate on his social network on Tuesday. The Tesla and Spacex CEO is also concerned that the Supreme Court of Wisconsin can rebalance the layout of electoral districts in favor of the Democrats.
To illustrate what was at stake in Wisconsin, the Supreme Court campaign broke a record of spending, particularly with advertising and attempts to increase participation, especially by Musk. On Sunday, the businessman delivered checks of $ 2 million (11 million) to voters on the stage of a rally in support of Schimel, an initiative that Democrats considered illegal.
According to the Brennan Center of the University of New York, this was the most expensive judicial election in US history, with over $ 90 million (516 million reais) on the campaign. Schimel and his supporters spent more than $ 53.3 million (302 million reais), including 12.2 million (69 million reais) from the Musk Political Action Committee. Crawford’s campaign and its supporters disbursed $ 45.1 million (R $ 256 million).
In just over two months in office, the republican billionaire defined the tone of what his presidency will be. In addition to dismantling federal agencies and dismissing thousands of employees through Musk led commission, Trump signed hundreds of decrees involving energy, migration, diversity, global warming, among other issues. The research points to a relative drop in its popularity, but the 78 -year -old had not yet faced any challenge at the polls.
Democrats, in turn, have been drift since they lost the presidency to Trump, as well as the majority in the House and Senate in November. In Florida, they were defeated by two -digit percentage margins in the two special elections.
*With information from AFP
Posted by Victor Oliveira
