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Far-left judge Susan Crawford very easily cruised to victory in Red Wisconsin – smashing her Republican opponent by 10 points, or 230,000 votes.
There are two main reasons for this. First, the race became a referendum on abortion. Sad to say, but this is a “losing issue” for Republicans, in the sense that – right or wrong – they are wildly outnumbered by pro-abortion voters right now. That’s the political reality, and it’s a very, very uphill battle in the culture to turn that around.
Second, the Democrats successfully tied the GOP candidate to “billionaires.” Of course it’s true that left-wing billionaires funded the Democrat, but perception is everything. Democrats did a great job tying Elon to the GOP, and the GOP did a terrible job advertising how many left-wing dollars came from out-of-state.
Basically, the left campaigned on “abortion rights” – which secured lots of “conservative” suburban women – and “anti-corruption.” The right campaigned on a complex argument that, at some point in the future, Democrats may become a majority in a different political body as a result of this state Supreme Court race.
See the problem?
Electoral politics aren’t always about being “right” or being the obviously more moral candidate. That’s not really what democracy is for. Republicans needed to make a case for why a Wisconsin voter would benefit from voting for the GOP candidate, right now. They failed.
It’s that simple.
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