Elon Musk is downplaying the results of a Wisconsin state Supreme Court race that he had previously said could “determine the fate of Western civilization” after his candidate lost.
Musk poured a record $21 million into a normally low-profile and non-partisan judicial race to try to get conservative Brad Schimel elected. Despite his high-profile antics—including handing out $1 million checks to voters and wearing a cheesehead hat at a rally—liberal appellate Judge Susan Crawford prevailed in Tuesday’s race.
In a last-ditch effort to turn out the right-wing vote, Musk had told supporters that the election mattered “for the future of the world,” the AP reported. Crawford managed, however, to win districts that Donald Trump had carried in November.
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