Yesterday’s Special Elections Scorecard

On Tuesday, the Left had their first chance to register anger at Donald Trump and reverse some of the losses in last November’s election.

The results were mixed. Republicans kept control of two Florida special elections for House seats, but  Democratic candidates outperformed their normal performance, partly because of lackluster GOP candidates and because the Democrats raised significantly more money in both races.

Money also played a big role in the highly-publicized Wisconsin Supreme Court race between liberal Susan Crawford and conservative Brad Schimel. Even though they outspent Schimel, progressives and their media allies focused their closing arguments on the fact that Elon Musk had funded two groups that together spent some $10 million on the race.

What went largely unreported was that billionaire progressives like George Soros and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker flooded the race with money behind Crawford.

This outcome preserved the Democrats’ 4-3 liberal majority on the Wisconsin court.

This could put in jeopardy former Governor Scott Walker’s public employee union reforms that saved the state billions of dollars. That would be a giant setback for Wisconsin and we will join the fight to preserve those vital worker protections against union bosses.

Some good news on election integrity. 62% of Wisconsin voters approved adding the state’s requirement for photo ID to vote in the state’s Constitution.  Photo ID only lost in liberal Madison (by 30 points) and Milwaukee (by just 2 points).

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