Brad Schimel and Republican supporters reach out to Trump voters in Wisconsin Supreme Court race
After a liberal blowout in the 2023 Wisconsin Supreme Court race, this year’s conservative candidate, Brad Schimel, says his campaign won’t make the same mistakes.
Schimel, the state’s former Republican attorney general, is embracing politics in ways the last conservative who ran for the court did not. He’s accepting money from the state Republican Party, getting help from Elon Musk and has presented the stakes of the race in more than just legal terms, framing it as part of a battle between good and evil.
Supreme Court races are nonpartisan, but in a wink and nod sort of way. The state Democratic and Republican parties have already funneled millions of dollars to their preferred candidates through direct transfers ahead of the April 1 election.
That wasn’t the case two years ago, when former conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly refused direct support from the Wisconsin GOP while his opponent, former Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz, accepted around $10 million from the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. Protasiewicz went on to defeat Kelly by 11 percentage points, flipping the court to liberal control for the first time in 15 years.
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