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Wisconsin provides a critical test for Democrats' anti-Elon Musk playbook

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    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : "President Trump needs us again.
60% : "Last year we showed up for Trump and he won," a narrator says in one of the ads.
55% : "Schimel needs Trump to win.
53% : "He wants to draw close to Trump."
47% : Between that and his polarizing efforts through the Department of Government Efficiency to slash the size of the federal government -- and polling that shows he's less popular than Trump, who endorsed conservative candidate Brad Schimel last week -- Democratic-aligned groups and liberal candidate Susan Crawford have made Musk a major focal point in the race's final stretch.
45% : Even if he hasn't been front and center, Trump, who posted on Truth Social last Friday urging Wisconsin voters to turn out early for Schimel, has still been a presence on the campaign trail in Wisconsin.
45% : He appeared at a campaign town hall event this month with Donald Trump Jr. and recently told a group of canvassers from the conservative group Turning Point USA that Trump needs a "support network" around him to help him fight the myriad suits his administration has faced.
42% : Both emphasize how voters in Wisconsin just months ago delivered the state for Trump -- and how a Crawford win could jeopardize his accomplishments.
39% : "Democrats can't win against Trump right now," Brandon Scholz, a Wisconsin Republican strategist, said.
36% : Recent polling in Wisconsin and nationally suggests that DOGE's tactics are pushing voters' patience and that Musk has emerged as a riper political target than Trump for Democrats.
35% : "I don't think the Democrats want to draw [Schimel] to Trump, because that gives MAGA voters incentive to come out to vote," Scholz added.
35% : Meanwhile, Schimel's views on Trump have long been in plain view.
32% : Honeyman added the Crawford campaign wasn't planning to run any ads in the race's remaining days directly mentioning Trump.
31% : " Scholz argued that Democrats would risk juicing conservative turnout in the off-year election by attempting to make Trump, who narrowly carried Wisconsin on his way to winning a second term in the White House, the center of their strategy.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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