The National Democratic Committee will announce on Tuesday its new investment in the electoral cycle in the Race of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, which will see the judge of the County of Dane, Susan Crawford, the Democratic candidate backed by the support of Brad Schimel, a former state attorney general and current judge of Waukesha County, ABC News, as he has known exclusively.
To help boost the organization on the field, the Democratic Party will organize telephone banks and call more than 2 million voters from Wisconsin in support of Crawford.
The new DNC investment will be used for land operations, including the organization, peer text messages and the mobilization of thousands of volunteers to help the Wisconsin democratic coordinated campaign. Last month, DNC president Ken Martin was in Wisconsin Ransing for the coordinated Democratic campaign of Wisconsin.
The elections of April 1 will decide who will take the open seat in the Court and if the bank will remain under control by the liberal judges or turn to a conservative majority, with important cases that involve abortion, redistribution of districts and electoral laws that will be presented.
The candidates of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, Brad Schimel and Susan Crawford participate in a debate, on March 12, 2025, in Milwaukee.
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The investment made by the DNC arrives on the first day of early voting in Wisconsin and marks the first investment by the organization from the 2024 elections.
The race will also get a preview of how voters in the state of the battlefield feel a few months in the second mandate of President Donald Trump. Trump won the State for just under 30,000 voters in the 2024 elections.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court career is also considered an indication of Elon Musk’s influence beyond Washington and how the Democrats try to go back against the richest man in the world, which links him with Schimel, the candidate backed by Republicans.
“With Wisconsin voters against the richest man in the world, this is a moment of all aspects and we are delighted to have the support of the DNC in this fight,” said Ben Wikler, president of the Wisconsin Democratic Party. “The elections in Wisconsin are often reduced to a hair bread, and every voter that we can result to support Judge Susan Crawford and Dr. Jill on April 1 can make a difference between keeping Wisconsin in a path of progress or letting Elon Musk and Donald Trump drag us upside down.”
A conservative group linked to Musk, building the future of the United States, has spent more than $ 1.6 million on television ads in the race, while another, Super Pac America PAC of Musk, has spent more than $ 6 million on outflows and digital media, according to state financing records.
Elon Musk arrives at the speech of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, at a joint session of Congress in the Capitol Chamber of the House of Representatives in Washington, on March 4, 2025.
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“When I went to Wisconsin to call the doors last month, people told me that they don’t want billionaires like Elon Musk who runs our federal government and certainly do not want to check our elections,” Martin said in a statement.
But billionaires have also invested in support from Crawford, including George Soros and the Democratic governor of Illinois JB Pritzker.
Although Trump has not backed Schimel, Musk urged X last month to people “Republican vote for the Supreme Court of Wisconsin to avoid voting fraud!”
The DNC is also working to support the coordinated Democratic campaign of Wisconsin, with the State Party recently announcing its “People Vs. Musk” campaign to reject Musk’s influence on the race.
The State Supreme Court career is the most expensive judicial career in the history of the United States, according to The Brennan Centera non -profit public policy institute.
Until Monday, more than $ 59 million have been spent in the race, which according to the group of experts breaks the record of most of the expense in an election of the State Supreme Court, exceeding the estimated $ 56 million in the career of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin 2023.
Oren Oppenheim from ABC News contributed to this report.
