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>> Great. Well, Anthony
Chergosky, thanks very much.

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>> Thank you.
>> We're now just four days

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away from the spring
election with justice for

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Wisconsin Supreme Court on
the ballot. Liberal

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candidate Chris Taylor has
held a commanding

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fundraising lead over the
conservative candidate,

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Maria Lazar, with most of
that money being poured

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into ads on TV and online.
Now, while this election

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has held a lower profile
than the last two Supreme

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Court elections, as "Here&
Now", senior political

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reporter Zac Schultz tells
us on Tuesday, this race

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will likely come down to
the get out the vote

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efforts of each campaign.
>> It's a Saturday morning

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in March, and a crowd of
volunteers is busy filling

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out postcards at the GOP
headquarters in Appleton.

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>> Address and then sign
your name. Right. A little

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something about Lazar or
vote on April 7th. We

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really got to get out the
votes.

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voters to support Maria
Lazar in the Supreme Court

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election. Pam Van Handel is
the chair of the Republican

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Party of Outagamie County.
She says handwritten

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postcards have a personal
touch and are more likely

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to be read than a glossy
campaign flier.

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>> So what we're doing is
we're looking for people

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that are more likely to go
out and vote in these

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smaller elections, because
it is tough to get people

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out to vote. So that's our
goal here. So we get a list

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from the Republican Party
of Wisconsin, and we tell

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them, give us the ones that
are really going to go out

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and vote because we really
need them.

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April 7th.
Colin Roberts, a member of

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the Milwaukee County Dems,
is knocking doors for Chris

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Taylor.
>> Oh, okay. Could I ask

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who you plan on voting for?
>> The Democratic okay.

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>> Yeah, yeah. So yeah.
Chris Taylor.

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>> Technically Supreme
Court elections are

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nonpartizan and candidates
use labels like

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conservative or liberal
instead of Republican or

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Democrat. But in reality,
the Democratic and

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Republican parties of
Wisconsin each donate

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millions of dollars and
coordinate thousands of

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volunteers in the get out
the vote effort.

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>> I just think going
everywhere is the key and

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talking to people.
>> Hello, ma'am, I'm Chris

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Taylor, so nice to meet you.
So nice to meet you,

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Cornelius. Oh, you have my
vote. Oh.

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>> Thank you. The Liberal
candidate has won four out

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of the last five Supreme
Court elections, flipping a

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court that in 2019 had A52
conservative majority. If

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Taylor wins, Liberals will
hold A52 majority.

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>> How many of. You are
fired up to protect our

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democracy? All right.
>> We are looking at a

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court that is now 4 to 3.
When I win, it will stay 4

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to 3. We're not changing
its composition, but the

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three votes are so very
important.

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>> Republicans around the
state have expressed worry

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the backlash to Donald
Trump's presidency and

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political realignment have
led to this losing streak.

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>> I don't know if it's
impacted morale. What I

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will say is this I think
that the state of Wisconsin

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is looking at these races
and they're asking who's

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running and why people are
running and for what reason.

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And when I look at this
race, the reason I am

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running is because I want
to be someone on that court

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who represents the law for
the state of Wisconsin.

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>> Taylor wants to make
sure her supporters don't

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get complacent with the
winning streak.

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>> There's four more state
Supreme Court elections

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coming up after mine. No
one should take anything

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for granted. This court can
change very quickly, but if

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I am able to get elected,
there will be a

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pro-democracy majority on
the court until at least

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2030.
>> In their wins. Rebecca

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Dallet, Jill Karofsky,
Janet Protasiewicz and

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Susan Crawford each
received 55% of the vote.

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The 1 conservative victory
in this streak was in 2019,

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when Bryan Hagedorn won by
less than 6000 votes, half

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a percent. That was a low
turnout election, with a

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million fewer voters than
last year. Hagedorn was

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outspent and written off by
most election observers who

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expected to see him lose
easily. It's no surprise

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Lazar hopes this election
ends up following the same

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pattern.
>> Well, secretly, yes. So

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the parallels are there. I
think that through my

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entire career, people have
underestimated me. It's

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sort of been a theme that
they don't think someone a

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little shorter, a little,
little softer spoken can be

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as strong as steel. And I
am. And in this race, I

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think that's important too.
People think that, you know,

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it's written off, it's a
done deal and it's not.

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>> Taylor is aware of the
Hagedorn comparisons.

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>> I won't rest until April
8th, the day after this

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election. I take nothing
for granted. This is going

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to be a hard, competitive
race. I will need every

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vote that I can get. I need
all the help that I can get

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from the people.
>> The state of.

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>> Wisconsin this weekend
will feature the final push

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for get out the vote
efforts.

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>> I really feel like the
people now are really

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getting involved at this
level, and we're getting

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more signs out. We're
getting we're just really

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getting the grassroots
going on.

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>> With volunteers knocking
on doors and reminding

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their supporters to vote on
Tuesday.

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location?
location?