Another election evening in the USA, as usual, a Tuesday. Five months after Donald Trump's victory and his Republicans, who is currently changing this country and parts of the rest of the world very sustainably. This time there were only two seats in the American House of Representatives for Florida and a seat in the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, not really a big deal – and this time trump after a good ten weeks. What does the result mean?
Well, the two places for MPs kept his Republicans and therefore defended their narrow majority as before. Jimmy Patronis, most recently finance minister of the state in the southeast, becomes the successor to Matt Gaetz, who was to become Trump's Minister of Justice and then completely left in the face of his scandals. Randy Fine, who had been a senator in the Sunshine State, replaces Mike Waltz, the national security advisor on Washington Mike Washington.
This will be happy on the one hand, after all, Florida Trump's Revier is, where his Trutzburg Mar-A-Lago is standing. “Mr. President, this victory belongs much more than me,” said Fine well. In the US representative house, the Republicans now have 220 mandate holders and the Democrats 213, two more seats are vacant after death. In the Senate, the party of the US President also has the majority. On the other hand, his people clearly won, with a 14 to 15 percentage point ahead, but by no means clearly as the last time their predecessors.
There were approaches of dissatisfaction in these now deep reds, i.e. stock conservative, voting districts. The loser Josh Weil, who had brought almost 43 percent of the vote against Fine, spoke of an “incredible profit” for the Democrats and a “warning sign” for the Republicans. The position of the security consultant Waltz also seems to be increasingly shaky after not only accidentally inviting a journalist to a chat group for air strikes on the Huthi in Yemen Washington Post also used his private mailbox at Gmail for official mails.
But with even greater tension than the outcome in Florida, the result from Wisconsin was later expected. Because there not only seemed to be a small referendum about the debut of the Trump government, but above all about their employees to be able to state Elon Musk. The urgent report came at a late hour: The liberal lawyer Susan Crawford, supported by the Democrats, defeated the conservative Brad Schimel and moves into the Supreme Court of this swing states – although Musk had put $ 25 million in the election campaign for shirk.
“Our dishes are not available,” says the winner after the election
For the multimilliarist, this was easy to exaggerate that could “decide on the future of America and western civilization”. Musk also promised Wisconsin $ 100 when signing a petition against “activist judges”, and his action committee each offered $ 50 for a picture of a voter in front of a polling station. The allegedly richest earthle has enough money, loud Forbes Currently $ 345.6 billion. From another side, the lawyer Crawford, 60, supported, in front of the heavy-rich democratic governor JB Pritzker from Illinois and the billionaire and major donor George Soros-with more success than her opponent.
As usual, the liberals have a 4: 3 majority at the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, which will make decisions on employee rights and abortion in the coming months. In addition, the question should be issued whether the regional congress districts were not designed too generous for the Republicans by the Republican majority in the state of representatives of the state. In any case, it is a defeat for Trump and especially for his familiar musk, who throw out tens of thousands of state employees and let entire authorities shred and otherwise throws around with the millions.
In many – not in all – state states, judges are determined in general elections. The coordination in Wisconsin was the most expensive choice for a judge's post that ever existed. The argument is said to have cost $ 100 million. Crawford's triumph gives hope that the most recently desperate democrats are going back to the trump and musk's power rush to resistances in the electorate. Deportations without guilty verdict and despite the ban by a court, at least beyond Trump's Maga base, encounters criticism. The increasing prices and falling share prices in the course of Trump's tariffs are not very popular overall, and those affected are even more likely to feel the mass layoffs.
“Today Wisconsin citizens have defended an unprecedented attack on our democracy, our fair elections and our Supreme Court,” said the winner Crawford. “Wisconsin got up and said loudly that justice has no price. Our dishes are not available.” Ex-President Barack Obama congratulated “on the election of a judge who believes in the rule of law and the protection of our freedom”. The democratic strategist Joe Zepecki said it: “The shot went around the world.”
Correction note: In an earlier version of this article, we incorrectly referred to JB Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, as a senator.
