Elon Musk has dropped $ 20 million in a small race in Wisconsin that could prove omniscience for the Midterms 2028 and for his Tesla Electric Car Company.
The founder of Tesla was in the state on Sunday to distribute two $ 1 million checks to help the Republican candidate Brad Schimel win a seat at Wisconsin's Supreme Court in Tuesday's elections.
He even put on a cheese hat hat, a characteristic item for fans of the Green Bay Packers, while he made his pitch for a crowd of 2,000 people.
“It's a super big problem,” he said. “I'm not calling it. I am here personally. '
President Donald Trump also urged voters to come for the Republican candidate.
“It's a big race,” he told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday. “I hope you get out and vote for the Republican.”
And he closed Democratic candidate Susan Crawford as a 'radical left madman'.
'The woman is a radical left crazy and let's see who wins, but the woman will be very bad. And you know, Wisconsin is politically a great state, and the Supreme Court has a lot to do with elections in Wisconsin, “he said, and added that winning Wisconsin is a big problem.”
Elon Musk campaigns in Wisconsin while wearing a cheese head
The Wisconsin Supreme Court will decide a number of important issues in the eternal battlefield, including abortion rights, conference distribution and the rules for the presidential elections of 2028.
But for Musk it is more personal.
The court will also decide that a lawsuit that Tesla has challenged has challenged a state law that prohibits car manufacturers to open dealers, so that the dealers prefer to be implemented independently.
Now he and his money have become a central issue in the competition. Democratic candidate Susan Crawford has called the race 'The People v. Musk'.
The Open Hofstoel van Wisconsin is the first major race of the presidency of Donald Trump. Both parties will keep a close eye on it as a Bellwether for how voters think about the president and his policy.
America Pac, the Super Pac Musk formed to support Trump in 2024, spent more $ 12 million on the race. Moreover, Musk personally contributed $ 3 million to the Republican Party of Wisconsin for the competition, while building the future of America, another group with links to him, spent more than $ 7 million on attack advertisements against the Democratic candidate.
But it is not only republicans who pour money into the race.
Democratic philanthropist George Soros donated $ 2 million to the Democratic Party of the State to support Crawford's bid.
“Everyone is everything in,” Brendan Glavin, the director of Insights at Open Secrets, told DailyMail.com. “I mean, it's amazing the amount of money.”
Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates Brad Schimel (Republican on the right) and Susan Crawford (Democrat on the left) during their debate in March
Elon Musk has become a central issue in the race, which draws demonstrators
George Soros donated $ 2 million
The match for the Open Court puts Republican former Attorney General Brad Schimel against Democrat Dane County Circuit Judge Susan Crawford.
Money pours it. It can be a $ 100 million race.
In addition to Soros, Crawford has in her corner fund money; The rich Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker; And Retired software engineer Gloria Page, the mother of Google co-founder Larry Page.
Schimel has donations from ABC Supply owner Diane Hendricks, one of the richest homemade woman in the country; Gop Mega Donor Elizabeth Uihlein; and Joe Ricketts, founder of Ameritrade and an owner of the Chicago Cubs.
President Trump has endorsed Schimel. Donald Trump Jr. has campaigned for him.
Ideological control over the court that hangs in the balance after liberals had taken control of it in 2023 and had a 4-3 majority. The person who wins is chosen for a period of 10 years that starts in August.
Voters decide on Tuesday who the chair wins.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court will have a definitive word about different issues, including abortion rights in the state.
Wisconsin Clinics stopped offering abortions in 2022 after the American Supreme Court Roe vs. Wade had destroyed because they feared that a state law from 1849 would prevent them from providing abortions.
However, the clinics resume the procedures in 2023 after a lower court ruled that the law did not apply to them. Now that case is pending for the State Supreme Court.
The judges will also decide on rearranging congress districts in 2023. Currently, Republicans have six of the eight house seats of the State.
And the court will decide the voting rules for the presidential elections of 2028, in which Wisconsin will be an important battlefield.
Demonstrants are protesting outside the Ki Convention Center before the start of a town hall meeting with Elon Musk on Sunday
Early votes started in Wisconsin
Brad Schimel, Middle, greets Donald Trump Jr., while Charlie Kirk looks at a town hall meeting this month
Moreover, Musk's electric car company Tesla has a lawsuit awaiting the state that challenges its decision to block it to open dealers.
The company challenges a state law with which only third parties, no car manufacturers, can exploit car dealers. The law is intended to prevent manufacturers from undermining independent dealers.
That case could eventually end in the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
The critics of Schimel have accused Musk of buying a favorable statement for Tesla if the dealer store would reach the Supreme Court of the State.
Tesla sells his vehicles directly to consumers, so customers in Wisconsin have to go to a neighboring state to buy an electric vehicle.
Company officials have been working for ten years to challenge the law. Two attempts in the legislative power of the state did not succeed. The company was exempted for Tesla dealers in the State Budget 2019-21, but Democratic government Tony Evers used its partial veto powers to delete the provision.
Schimel has repeatedly said that he would treat every case in which Tesla is involved if another when he considered whether he should hear it or recover himself. He also says that the donations of Musk and his groups do not let him connect to them.
In the meantime, Glavin van Open Secrets warned that the enormous editions in this race are a sign of big money, especially in the interim elections of 2016.
“It is an example of the trend that we will see of this big money, not only at national level, but the big money that flows down in lower races,” he said.
“The part in question is when, especially in state or local varieties, that, when you have a stream of national mega-donoring money that comes in, citizens, voters have to worry about these external influences and what it means for their chosen officials,” he added.
“That is what we get with the ability of external expenditure groups to collect unlimited contributions, you give influence to people who can write certain figure controls.”
