
And his critics are overjoyed.
Musk and Musk-aligned groups spent some $20 million to help conservative candidate Brad Schimel. Musk over the weekend claimed the outcome of the race “will be important for the future of civilization.”
He even gave out two $1 million checks to voters in a publicity stunt for Schimel.
Voters instead selected the progressive candidate, Susan Crawford, which ensures the court will retain its 4-3 liberal majority.
“He tried to spend his unlimited resources to buy a state Supreme Court seat in Wisconsin,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said on MSNBC on Tuesday night. “And it failed spectacularly.”
Jeffries urged Republicans to walk away from Musk, whom he called an “unelected, unpopular, unhinged and unAmerican billionaire puppet-master.”
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