Elon Musk's spending in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election race not only failed to secure his candidate the win, it may have actively hurt his own campaign, according to experts. Musk spent over $25 million supporting GOP-backed Brad Schimel in the race against the Democrat's pick,
Wisconsin voters rejected an all-out blitz by the billionaire to get a conservative on the state’s supreme court.
Susan Crawford, a liberal, won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday, easily defeating her Musk-backed conservative challenger, Brad Schimel, in a race Musk said “might decide the future of America and Western civilization.”
MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow claimed that a liberal candidate winning Wisconsin Supreme Court election was a referendum on President Trump and his senior adviser Elon Musk.
Elon Musk wore a 'cheesehead' while trying to buy votes in Green Bay, Wisconsin. But Green Bay voters decided they had enough of moldy Musk and sent him packing after electing his opponent in a landslide to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
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