Elon Musk paid $25 million to find out voters really dislike him

On Tuesday, Brad Schimel, the Trump-backed candidate in the race for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, lost in decisive fashion to his liberal opponent, Susan Crawford. Other than the candidate himself, the election’s biggest loser is Elon Musk, who spent $25 million on Schimel’s blowout loss, and whose future in bankrolling the Make America Great Again movement is suddenly up in the air.

Musk is not used to this sort of uncertainty. He spent more than a quarter-billion dollars on the 2024 presidential election...