% >> JANET PROTASIEWICZ WON A
% SMASHING 11-POINT VICTORY
% TUESDAY NIGHT, WINNING A SEAT ON
% THE WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT AND
% CREATING A NEW LIBERAL MAJORITY
% IN THE PROCESS.
% JANET PROTASIEWICZ DEFEATED
% CONSERVATIVE DANIEL KELLY 55.5%
% TO 44.5% IN A RACE THAT SET
% SPENDING RECORDS AND TURNED OUT
% NEARLY TWO MILLION VOTERS
% STATEWIDE.%AS PART OF OUR ELE
CTION
% COVERAGE, ZAC SCHULTZ WAS AT THE
% PROTASIEWICZ PARTY ON ELECTION
% NIGHT AND HAS THIS STORY.
% >> WELL, WISCONSIN, GUESS WHAT?
% WE DID IT.
% >> THE STAKES OF TUESDAY'S RACE
% FOR A SEAT IN THE WISCONSIN
% SUPREME COURT COULD NOT HAVE
% BEEN MORE CLEAR.
% THE WINNER WOULD DETERMINE THE
% IDEOLOGICAL BALANCE OF THE COURT
% IN A RECORD $45 MILLION IN
% CAMPAIGN SPENDING, MADE SURE
% EVERYONE IN THE STATE KNEW
% ISSUES LIKE ABORTION AND
% REDISTRICTING WERE HANGING IN
% THE BALANCE.
% >> FIRST, IT MEANS THAT
% WISCONSIN VOTERS HAVE MADE THEIR
% VOICES HEARD.
% THEY'VE CHOSEN TO REJECT
% PARTISAN EXTREMISM IN THIS
% STATE.
% >> JANET PROTASIEWICZ SPENT MOST
% OF THE CAMPAIGN TALKING ABOUT
% HER VALUES, MAKING IT CLEAR TO
% VOTERS HOW SHE FELT ABOUT ISSUES
% LIKE ABORTION, EVEN IF SHE
% DECLARED THAT THAT WOULD HAVE NO
% IMPACT ON HOW SHE MIGHT RULE ON
% THE CHALLENGE TO THE STATE'S
% 1849 ABORTION BAN.
% >> OUR STATE IS TAKING A STEP
% FORWARD TO A BETTER AND BRIGHTER
% FUTURE, WHERE OUR RIGHTS AND
% FREEDOMS WILL BE PROTECTED.
% >> THIS WAS THE SECOND BLOW-OUT
% LOSS FOR CONSERVATIVE DANIEL
% KELLY.
% APPOINTED TO THE COURT IN 2016,
% HE BLAMED HIS LOSS IN 2020 ON
% TURN-OUT FOR THE DEMOCRATIC
% PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY HELD ON THE
% SAME DAY.
% THIS TIME, HE HAD NO ONE ELSE TO
% BLAME.%HE SPENT THE LATTER PA
RT OF THE
% CAMPAIGN CALLING JANET
% PROTASIEWICZ A SERIAL LIAR AND
% REPEATED THOSE CLAIMS TUESDAY
% NIGHT AND DID NOT ATTEMPT TO
% LOOK GRACIOUS IN DEFEAT, EVEN
% REFUSING TO MAKE THE CUSTOMARY
% PHONECALL CONCEDING TO HIS
% OPPONENT.
% >> I WISH THAT IN A CIRCUMSTANCE
% LIKE THIS I WOULD BE ABLE TO
% CONCEDE TO A WORTHY OPPONENT.
% BUT I DO NOT HAVE A WORTHY
% OPPONENT TO WHICH I CAN CONCEDE.
% >> AND I WILL BE A PART OF THE
% SOLUTION TO MAKE OUR SUPREME
% COURT, ALONG WITH MY SOON-TO-BE
% NEW COLLEAGUES.
% >> MEANWHILE, PROTASIEWICZ COULD
% BARELY FINISH HER VICTORY SPEECH
% AS SHE WAS WELCOMED INTO THE NEW