% >> Frederica: FOLLOWING
% TUESDAY'S PRIMARY ELECTION, TWO
% CANDIDATES FOR THE WISCONSIN
% SUPREME COURT HEAD INTO
% CAMPAIGNING FOR THE GENERAL
% ELECTION SET FOR APRIL 4.
% MILWAUKEE COUNTY CIRCUIT JUDGE
% WON 45% AND DANNY KELLY GARNERED
% 24.2%.%THEY EACH SPOKE AT THE
ELECTION
% NIGHT PARTIES FOCUSSING ON THE
% TOPICS AND LIKELY TO COME BEFORE
% THE COURT, ABORTION.
% >> I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW I'LL
% RULE IN ANY CASE BUT THROUGHOUT
% THIS CASE I HAVE BEEN ABSOLUTELY
% CLEAR ABOUT WHAT MY VALUES ARE.
% AND THAT'S BECAUSE I BELIEVE THE
% VOTERS OF THIS STATE DESERVE TO
% KNOW WHAT A CANDIDATE'S VALUES
% ARE.
% I VALUE A WOMAN'S FREEDOM TO
% MAKE HER OWN REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
% CARE DECISIONS.
% >> IT'S GOING TO BE AN ELECTION
% LIKE NO OTHER.
% TONIGHT WE JOIN THE FIGHT TO
% PRESERVE OUR CONSTITUTIONAT
% FORMS OF GOVERNMENT AGAINST A
% NOVEL AND GRAVE THREAT.
% THE PROMISE TO SET ASIDE OUR LAW
% AND OUR CONSTITUTION WHETHER
% THEY CONFLICT WITH HER PERSONAL
% VALUES CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO
% STAND.
% >> Frederica: THY THE HIGH STAKE
% RACE GETS MORE ATTENTION FROM
% HERE.
% WE TURN TO SENIOR POLITICAL
% REPORTER ZAC SCHULTZ WHO JOINS
% US FROM THE STATE CAPITOL WITH
% MORE.%WAS THIS THE PRIMARY E
LECTION
% OUTCOME EXPECTED?
% >> I DON'T THINK YOU CAN BE TOO
% SURPRISED.%CERTAINLY NOT ON T
HE LIBERAL
% SIDE.
% JANET HAD THE MOST MONEY AND
% FIRST COMMERCIAL AND
% CONSOLIDATED A LOT OF DEMOCRATIC
% SUPPORT AROUND HER CAMPAIGN
% EARLY ON.
% THE OTHER LIBERAL JUDGE EVERETT
% MITCHELL TRIED HARD TO GET
% SUPPORT AND HAD A FEW PEOPLE BUT
% NEVER HAD THE MONEY TO GET HIS
% NAME OUT THERE.
% SEEING JANET ADVANCE IS NOT
% SURPRISING.%MAYBE THE MARGIN
S FOR SOME MAY
% HAVE BEEN SURPRISING.
% ON THE REPUBLICAN SIDE WE KNEW
% IT WOULD BE A CLOSE MARGIN.
% AND IT GOES AGAINST YOUR
% CONVENTIONAL THINKING BUT THE
% OUTCOME MAY FIT THOUGH JENNIFER
% DOROW MAY HAVE BEEN PREFERRED
% AHEAD OF TIME AND WE SAW OUTSIDE
% INTEREST GROUPS AND OTHERS TRY
% TO TAKE HER DOWN AND GETTING THE
% SAME RESULT OF ADVANCING DANIEL
% KELLY BECAUSE HE WANTED TO WIN.
% ON THE LIBERALS' PART BECAUSE
% THEY THOUGHT HE WOULD BE A
% BETTER MATCH-UP IN THE GENERAL
% ELECTION.
% THIS OUTCOME IS NOT TERRIBLY
% SURPRISING AND THE MARGIN IS SO
% NARROW IT CAME DOWN TO THE END.
% >> Frederica: TUESDAY'S ELECTION
% SAW RECORD TURNOUT FOR SUPREME
% COURT PRIMARY.
% WHAT DID IT LOOK LIKE ACROSS THE
% STATE?
% >> IT VARIED ACROSS THE REGIONS.
% IN SOME PARTS OF THE SOUTHERN
% MORE POPULOUS AREAS THERE WAS
% HIGH TURNOUT IN THE NORTHWEST
% CORNER LOWER TURNOUT AND SOME
% FITS WITH THE THINK HOW THE
% CAMPAIGNS WORK.
% WE'RE TALKING FEBRUARY 21,
% MIDDLE OF WINTER.
% GENERALLY THERE'S NOT A LOT OF
% ATTENTION PAID AND IT'S DRIVEN
% BY ADVERTISING.
% HOW MUCH DID PEOPLE EVEN KNOW
% THAT ONE, THERE WAS AN ELECTION,
% AND TWO, IT WAS THIS IMPORTANT.
% IT'S HARDER TO PENETRATE
% NORTHERN WISCONSIN WITH
% ADVERTISING DOLL THE WAY YOU CAN
% BLANKET SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN AND
% OTHER COUNTIES.
% AND IN MADISON YOU HAD A
% CONTESTED MAYORAL PRIMARY.
% !N NORTHERN MILWAUKEE YOU HAD A
% CONTESTED PRIMARY REPUBLICAN
% SIDE FOR A SPECIAL ELECTION IN A
% SENATE DISTRICT.
% ALL THOSE THINGS ARE DROVE
% TURNOUT IN MORE POPULOUS
% REGIONS.
% >> Frederica: DID ANYTHING STAND
% OUT IN PARTISAN VOTING PATTERNS?
% >> THERE'S A SPLIT ACROSS THE
% STATE IN REPUBLICAN VOTING
% TRENDS.%WE'VE SEEN THIS TIME
AND TIME
% AGAIN OVER THE PAST 10 TO 15
% YEARS WHERE SOUTHEASTERN
% WISCONSIN ESPECIALLY WHERE
% SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN TALK RADIO
% DOMINATES HAS A DIFFERENT
% OPINION WHO NAY THEY FAVOR IN A
% PRIMARY VERSUS OUTSIDE RURAL
% WISCONSIN AND USED TO BE
% SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN WAS ENOUGH
% TO DOMINATE.
% THAT'S HOW SCOTT WALKER WON TO
% BECOME THE GOVERNOR AND HOW
% REBECCA CLAYFISH BECAME GOVERNOR
% AND IT'S SHIFTED AND BEEN
% PLAYING OUT MORE AND MORE THE
% REST OF THE STATE, OUTSTATED
% RURAL WISCONSIN FOR REPUBLICANS
% CAN OUTNUMBER SOUTHEASTERN
% WISCONSIN.
% WE SAW JENNIFER DOROW'S AREA OF
% SUPPORT WAS STRONG BUT WAS BEAT
% HANDILY IN THE REST OF THE STATE
% AND WON BY A COUPLE PERCENTAGE
% POINTS.
% >> Frederica: FORMER JUSTICE
% LOST HIS LOST ELECTION FOR
% SUPREME COURT.
% IS HE VULNERABLE HERE?
% >> DEMOCRATS CERTAINLY THINK SO.
% THAT'S WHAT THEY WANTED TO SEE.
% BUT IN REALITY WE'VE SEEN LOTS
% OF CANDIDATES HISTORICALLY
% ACROSS WISCONSIN RUN AFTER
% LOSING AN ELECTION AND TRY
% AGAIN.
% THE MESSAGE THAT MAY OR MAY NOT
% WIN THE SECOND TIME IS NOT THAT
% THEY LOST AN ELECTION BUT PEOPLE
% KNOW WHAT THEIR VULNERABILITIES
% ARE BECAUSE THEY POLLED AGAINST
% HIM IN THE PAST.
% IN THIS CASE DANIEL KELLY WILL
% SAY HE LOST BECAUSE BERNIE
% SANDERS AND JOE BIDEN HAD A
% CONTESTED PRIMARY AND DONALD
% TRUMP WASN'T CONTEST AND SAYS
% HATS THE MAJORITY OF THE MARGIN.
% THIS IS A DIFFERENT RATE.
% WE SHOULDN'T LOOK AT THAT AS THE
% ROAD MAP BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE
% THE SAME CIRCUMSTANCES.
% >> Frederica: IS THERE THE SAME
% INFIGHTING IN THE PARTY BETWEEN
% DOROW AND KELLY?
% >> THAT REMAINS TO BE SEEN AND
% SOMETHING REPUBLICANS ARE
% WATCHING AND DEMOCRATS WOULD
% LIKE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IF
% THEY CAN.
% WE SAW A SIMILAR THING PLAY OUT
% LONG THE SAME LINES LAST SUMMER
% WHEN TIM MICHAELS WON THE
% GUBERNATORIAL PRIMARY AND
% ATTACKING CLAYFISH HEAVILY AND
% SHE AND HER SUPPORTERS WEREN'T
% HAPPY AND THERE WASN'T THE
% UNIFYING MOMENT THAT CAME
% AFTERWARDS.%THIS TIME WE SAW
DANIEL KELLY
% SAYING HE WOULD NOT SUPPORT
% JENNIFER DOROW IF SHE WAS THE
% ONE TO ADVANCE.
% HE REFUSED TO ENDORSE HER AND
% DOROW SAID SHE WOULD ENDORSE
% KELLY AND SAID REPUBLICANS NEED
% TO UNIFY BUT THERE ARE SOME
% SUPPORTERS STILL MIFFED THAT
% KELLY WOULDN'T SUPPORT THEIR
% PERSON GOING FORWARD WHETHER
% THAT FRACTURE MAINTAINS AND
% EXISTS OR IF REPUBLICAN PARTIES
% WANT TO MAINTAIN THE APRIL 4
% PRIMARY IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN
% FRACTURES THAT EXISTED BEFORE
% AND SOMETHING TO BE AWARE OF
% GOING FORWARD.
% >> Frederica: SPENDING IN THIS
% RACE IS EXPECTED TO BE
% STRATOSPHERIC.%DO YOU KNOW WH
AT THE PROJECTIONS
% ARE AND WHO'S GIVING?
% >> WE'RE LOOKING AT LEAST $20
% MILLION TO $40 MILLION AND A LOT
% OF OUT STATE AND SPECIAL