Americas most important election of the year is being held in Wisconsin

The most important election of the year arrives April 1, and will decide who controls the Wisconsin Supreme Court.The race pits Brad Schimel, the former Republican Attorney General, against Susan Crawford, a judge from heavily leftist Dane County.With the recent retirement of progressive justice Ann Walsh Bradley, the state’s highest court now stands deadlocked, with three conservatives and three liberals, so the winner will be the tie-breaking vote in what might be the swingiest of the swing states.The election has nationwide implications, in more ways than one.

 Democrats are attempting to make the race a referendum on President Trump’s most potent ally, Elon Musk.Here in Wisconsin, the party is currently running an ad that barely mentions Schimel — but instead attacks Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency. The narrator accuses the “out of control” Musk of threatening to cut Social Security, slash cancer research and eliminate the Department of Education, and damns Schimel in passing, saying he’d let Musk get away with all of it.Musk has pumped millions of dollars into groups backing Schimel, so if Democrats successfully paint the conservative candidate as a Musk puppet, this strategy will undoubtedly spread nationwide.

If liberals succeed in defeating Schimel based on DOGE’s handiwork, it might actually be Democrats who keep Musk in the news to use his influence as a talking point in the 2026 midterms.The contest is also an early look at how voters feel about Trump’s second term.The president has won Wisconsin twice — each time with fewer than 20,000 votes, or less than 1% of the statewide tally.Trump endorsed Schimel on Friday, calling Crawford a “Radical Left Liberal” who has been soft on crime, and effectively tying Schimel to his own agenda. “And if she wins, the Movement to restore our Nation will bypass Wisconsin,” Trump warned.A Marquette University Law School poll conducted in February showed Wisconsin residen...