{"id":37754,"date":"2025-04-02T16:23:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T16:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/wisconsin-and-florida-races-give-jolt-of-energy-to-democrats-in-fight-against-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T16:23:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T16:23:24","slug":"wisconsin-and-florida-races-give-jolt-of-energy-to-democrats-in-fight-against-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/wisconsin-and-florida-races-give-jolt-of-energy-to-democrats-in-fight-against-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin and Florida races give jolt of energy to Democrats in fight against Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats motivated by deep anger from voters who say party isn\u2019t doing enough to coalesce around a strategy<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/apr\/02\/donald-trump-tariffs-trade-latest-live-us-politics-news\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/democrats\">Democrats<\/a> were the clear winners in election contests on Tuesday that offered a temperature check on the popularity of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In Wisconsin, Susan Crawford, a liberal judge backed by Democrats, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/02\/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-result-race\">won a seat<\/a> on the state supreme court, defeating her conservative opponent Brad Schimel by 10 points (Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2024\/nov\/06\/us-election-results-map-2024-live-donald-trump-kamala-harris-president\">carried the state <\/a>by one point in November). Crawford won despite Musk and allied groups spending a staggering $25m on Schimel\u2019s behalf. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/04\/01\/us\/elections\/results-wisconsin-supreme-court.html\">Every single county in Wisconsin<\/a> shifted in Democrats\u2019 favor compared to the 2024 election.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/02\/wisconsin-florida-races-democrats-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats motivated by deep anger from voters who say party isn\u2019t doing enough to coalesce around a strategy US politics live \u2013 latest updates Democrats were the clear winners in election contests on Tuesday that offered a temperature check on the popularity of Donald Trump and Elon Musk. In Wisconsin, Susan Crawford, a liberal judge &#8230; <a title=\"Wisconsin and Florida races give jolt of energy to Democrats in fight against Trump\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/wisconsin-and-florida-races-give-jolt-of-energy-to-democrats-in-fight-against-trump\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Wisconsin and Florida races give jolt of energy to Democrats in fight against Trump\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}