Wisconsin Republicans Hit Their Vote Target, but Democrats Blew Past Theirs

Source: New York Times | Author: Reid J. Epstein | Original URL: View Original

The liberal candidate in the state’s Supreme Court race benefited from outsize Democratic turnout as counties swung left across the state.

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Wisconsin Republicans Hit Their Vote Target, but Democrats Blew Past Theirs. The liberal candidate in the state’s Supreme Court race benefited from outsize Democratic turnout as counties swung left across the state.

Again and again, Republicans repeated their goal for the Wisconsin Supreme Court election on Tuesday: Get more than 60 percent of President Trump’s voters to back Judge Brad Schimel, the conservative candidate, and they would win, flipping the court’s majority back to the right.

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