— from Hedrick Smith —
Just a few months ago, the smart money in Democratic political circles was no longer betting on Wisconsin as a likely winnable state in the November election battle to unseat President Trump. But the surprising outcome of the state’s April 7 election has put Wisconsin back in play.
Wisconsin voters set off Republican alarm bells and delivered a sharp rebuff to Donald Trump by piling up a 160,000-vote majority for Democratic judicial candidate Jill Karofsky. She won a stunning upset victory against Trump’s multi-tweet-endorsed candidate for the state supreme court, incumbent Republican judge Daniel Kelly. His loss was rare – only the second time since 1967 that an incumbent supreme court judge has been beaten.
Former Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele called the sweeping Democratic victory in Wisconsin “a clarion call” to the Republican Party and the Trump White House.
“The danger is greater for Republicans,” Steele told The New York Times, “because of what they tried to do with the Wisconsin campaign – to force the vote, to put an arm around their candidate for supreme court and then to have that wiped out handily by the Democrats…Wisconsin is now in play in a big way.”
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