Elon Musk Hosts Rally in Wisconsin As He Campaigns for Supreme Court Candidate Brad Schimel

TIME

The landslide sweep for the Republican party during last year’s election is set to be tested on Tuesday during a special election for Wisconsin’s Supreme Court. The race has become the most expensive judicial race in U.S. history, with investments nearing $100 million as the candidates, Donald Trump-endorsed Brad Schimel and liberal-backed Dane County Judge Susan Crawford, face each other. The winner will decide the supermajority of the court, which is currently liberal. On Sunday, Musk handed out a million-dollar check to two registered voters in the state. Musk first used this tactic during the general election, where he also gave voters a million-dollar prize if they registered to vote in swing states. Election law experts suggested then that the act was illegal because federal law forbids people from paying or accepting payments to register to vote. Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul filed a lawsuit on Friday to prevent Musk from handing out the exorbitant payments to voters, though an appellate court denied his request.

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00:00What do you think of my hat?

00:07Alright, I'm going to sign the hat and I'm going to throw it out.

00:14I mean, isn't it shocking how much violence and hatred is coming from the left?

00:21I mean, isn't it supposed to be the party, they claim to be the party of empathy,

00:28and yet they're burning Teslas and shooting up dealerships and calling for the death of the president and me?

00:36I'm like, guys, you know, this is insane.

00:40Like, they're gone psycho.

00:42I mean, it's really, like, I totally understand if somebody doesn't want to buy our product,

00:48yeah, it's up to you, it's free country, you know, but you don't have to burn it down, okay?

00:53But much, that's somebody else's car, leave it alone.

00:56I should say that the reason, you know, the reason for the checks is that it's really just to get attention.

01:02It's like, we need to get attention, and it's somewhat inevitably, when I do these things,

01:09the, you know, the sort of, it causes the legacy media to, like, kind of lose their minds,

01:16and then they'll run it on every news channel, and I'm like, I couldn't pay them, it would cost, like, ten times more.

01:25Thank you so much.

01:26You're welcome.

01:32Congratulations.

01:34All right.

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