Ron Johnson Asked Point Blank How Concerned He Is About Wisconsin Supreme Court Race

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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) is asked about today's Wisconsin Supreme Court race.

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00:00Wisconsin Supreme Court race. How concerned are you about Judge Schimel's prospects come tomorrow?

00:12Well, listen, Wisconsin's going to be a tight race. I think it's a very important race.

00:16It's decided we're going to have a Supreme Court that has a majority of judges, people who will apply the law,

00:24as opposed to what we have now, a bunch of super legislators that could care less what the law says.

00:29They're just going to rule based on their policy preferences. It's a significant difference.

00:34How much has Elon Musk impacted this race right now?

00:37He may be the difference when all is said and done.

00:40He's doing all kinds of things to obtain people's information so that on Election Day they can contact them and encourage them to vote.

00:50I think what he's doing is pretty masterful.

00:55He gives out these million-dollar checks, apparently completely illegal because no court was willing to overturn it,

01:01and the coverage, the news media coverage of that is worth multiples of that.

01:07He's a brilliant guy, and he's just trolling you guys.

01:10How do you feel, though, about him cutting personal checks to essentially get people to vote?

01:15No, I mean, they have a petition.

01:18How many tens of millions of dollars did George Soros and J.B. Pritzker put into these races?

01:24We're not the ones that turned Wisconsin's Supreme Court race into something very profitable for the political consultants.

01:36That was in 2023.

01:38Radical leftists came in and funded and pretty well purchased that Supreme Court race.

01:43We're just not willing to unilaterally disarm.

01:45What are the implications for your party, though, if the Democrats do win tomorrow?

01:49It won't be good.

01:51Again, the super legislators on that court now will then redistrict.

01:54They will gerrymander as opposed to having the elected representatives in our legislature draw the districts.

02:02They're going to take it upon themselves, and they'll draw the districts in a highly political manner to try and steal two House seats.

02:09That could flip the majority here in the House and make President Trump's second half of his term not pleasant.

02:15And then on tariffs, if they go forward on Wednesday, what impact is that going to have on Wisconsin?

02:21Well, as the President has admitted, tariffs will create pain for some businesses,

02:25and I think Wisconsin will be particularly hard hit with all the manufacturing and agricultural interests.

02:30I'll wait to see what President Trump's going to do.

02:32He's used tariffs in the past effectively to get nations to do what they should have done anyway.

02:37Right now, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, but I am concerned.

02:39Should he pull back?

02:41I'll wait to see what he does on April 2nd.

02:44Lastly, he keeps talking about a third term. What do you think about him running for a third term?

02:48We have a constitutional amendment to prevent that.

02:50Okay, thanks.

Ron Johnson Asked Point Blank How Concerned He Is About Wisconsin Supreme Court Race

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