Yesterday, April 4th, Biden won Wisconsin’s ten electoral votes. And it wasn’t even close. He won by a blowout margin of 55 percent to 45 percent. If you don’t know what I am talking about … then you are part of the problem.
A GOP that refuses to accept that the nature of American elections fundamentally changed in 2020 and that continues to bitterly cling to the delusion that everything is just going to go back to normal.
What I am talking about is the Wisconsin Supreme Court. It now has a four to three liberal majority. The repercussions for the 2024 election include that court reversing itself and holding that ballot harvesting is legal and voter ID is not legal … in other words, Wisconsin is now out of reach for the GOP Presidential candidate. From NBC:
Janet Protasiewicz, a judge on the Milwaukee County Circuit Court, has won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, NBC News projects, giving liberals their first majority on the state’s highest court in 15 years.
Protasiewicz defeated conservative Dan Kelly, a former state Supreme Court justice, on Tuesday in what became the most expensive state Supreme Court race in U.S. history and one of the most closely watched elections of 2023.
Protasiewicz’s victory will allow the court’s new liberal majority to determine the future of several pivotal issues the bench is likely to decide in the coming years, including abortion rights, the state’s gerrymandered legislative maps and election administration — including, possibly, the outcome of the 2024 presidential race in the battleground state.
With 85% of the expected vote counted, Protasiewicz had the support of 55% percent of voters, while Kelly had 45% percent. …
… the Protasiewicz campaign, as well as groups supporting it, widely outspent Kelly’s campaign and groups supporting it.
This election … not Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine … should have been the top priority for the GOP. It obviously wasn’t:
"At least 435,000 people voted early for this election — either via the mail or with in-person absentee voting — and that group is expected to lean heavily Dem. . . Protasiewicz banked at least a 100,000 vote lead from those early voters." https://t.co/A5pQxPG5Vu
— Ned Ryun (@nedryun) April 5, 2023
Jesse Kelly’s tweet is super-applicable to the NHGOP. The House has a functional Democrat majority and yet the “Republicans” in the House kept the same “leaders” that lost their majority. 2024 is going to be a bloodbath for the NHGOP. Governor Chris Pappas, a solid Democrat majority in the House and a better than 50 percent chance that the Democrats take the Senate and Executive Council too.
