By Molly Goddard
7:53am PDT, Apr 3, 2025
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Elon Musk seems to be spreading a wild conspiracy theory.After the tech mogul allegedly threw $21 million into Republican Brad Schimel's campaign for Wisconsin's state Supreme Court, he's now claiming the race was rigged because Democratic appellate judge Susan Crawford won.
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On Wednesday, April 2, Elon Musk took to X to slam the results of the Wisconsin state Supreme Court race. "The long con of the left is corruption of the judiciary," the DOGE specialist penned in the social media update. "There is value to losing a piece for positional gain."According to The Daily Beast, Musk spent the previous weekend campaigning for Brad Schimel by going onstage at a rally wearing a cheesehead and allegedly giving $1 million checks to voters.
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Elon Musk isn't the only right-winger spreading the theory that the election was stolen. During an interview with Infowars founder Alex Jones, Republican political consultant Roger Stone condemned the results."The numbers don't just add up," Stone alleged regarding the outcome. "The fraud was baked in in the mail-in vote."
The Tesla founder reposted the video of the chat between the two conservatives on X and added, "Hmm."
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On Tuesday, April 1, Susan Crawford declared victory in the race against Donald Trump and Elon Musk-backed Brad Schimel, signaling a major disapproval of Republican leadership."As a little girl growing up in Chippewa Falls, I never could have imagined that I'd be taking on the richest man in the world for justice in Wisconsin," she explained in her victory speech via NBC News.
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Despite his big-wig supporters claiming there was fraud in the race, Brad Schimel fully conceded to Susan Crawford."I knew I had to put my all in," the Waukesha County circuit court judge told the crowd at his election night gathering. "You got to accept the results."