*UPDATE*
The polls close in Wisconsin at 8 PM CT. The big ticket is the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Wisconsin is a swing state. Trump defeated former VP Kamala Harris only by .86%.
The conservatives have a chance to take the majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court after losing it in 2023:
In the state Supreme Court race, Dane County Judge Susan Crawford and Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel look to replace outgoing Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, the court’s longest-serving member, who announced last April that she would not seek a fourth 10-year term. Wisconsin Supreme Court seats are officially nonpartisan, but voters as well as the state’s party establishments routinely rally behind certain candidates based on their judicial philosophies and records.Crawford has the backing of Democrats and progressives, including an endorsement this week from former President Barack Obama. Schimel has support from Republicans and conservatives, including endorsements from Trump and Elon Musk.
According to John Commerford, the executive director of the NRA Institute for Legislative Action, the race is particularly important for gun owners because Democrat Gov. Tony Evers has “proposed or signaled” a “litany of anti-gun laws from mandatory waiting periods to red flag gun confiscation laws.”
Granted, the race also received much attention because Elon Musk brought it to light, giving away millions to people who had already voted.
People also view this as a “litmus test” for Trump since he barely won Wisconsin:
But the outcome will also show how voters in one of the most evenly divided battleground states in the nation are feeling about Mr. Trump’s sharp cuts to the federal work force, his crackdown on illegal immigration and the administration’s crusade against diversity initiatives in government programs and higher education. Mr. Trump won Wisconsin by less than a percentage point last November and narrowly lost it in the 2020 election.“The pendulum swings back and forth in U.S. elections, and I think this election will be a good indicator of whether the pendulum is going to swing back the other way based on Trump’s actions in office,” said Michael Orwig, 40, a federal worker and Schimel supporter who lives in a suburb south of Milwaukee. “This is going to be the first litmus test.”
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