Brad Schimel lost to Susan Crawford, which sucks.
And you can’t blame MAGA for not showing up to vote–Trump and Elon did an amazing job of mobilizing their voters, boosting conservative turnout by about 25% over the last Supreme Court election, which already had a high turnout compared to a more normal off-year election. The losing conservative in 2023 got 818,000 votes in that year. Schimel received 1,050,000 this year.
That’s a very nice turnout boost for the conservative in the race, so you can’t claim that there was a lack of interest, effort, or that Trump and Musk should have done more to mobilize their base.
Democrats, too, mobilized their base, and I’m not sure you could argue that they did a better job of it than Republicans, as tempting as that argument is to make. If this were just a base election, instead of one more like a general…
