>> Great. Well, Anthony Chergosky, thanks very much.
>> Thank you. >> We're now just four days
away from the spring election with justice for
Wisconsin Supreme Court on the ballot. Liberal
candidate Chris Taylor has held a commanding
fundraising lead over the conservative candidate,
Maria Lazar, with most of that money being poured
into ads on TV and online. Now, while this election
has held a lower profile than the last two Supreme
Court elections, as "Here& Now", senior political
reporter Zac Schultz tells us on Tuesday, this race
will likely come down to the get out the vote
efforts of each campaign. >> It's a Saturday morning
in March, and a crowd of volunteers is busy filling
out postcards at the GOP headquarters in Appleton.
>> Address and then sign your name. Right. A little
something about Lazar or vote on April 7th. We
really got to get out the votes.
voters to support Maria Lazar in the Supreme Court
election. Pam Van Handel is the chair of the Republican
Party of Outagamie County. She says handwritten
postcards have a personal touch and are more likely
to be read than a glossy campaign flier.
>> So what we're doing is we're looking for people
that are more likely to go out and vote in these
smaller elections, because it is tough to get people
out to vote. So that's our goal here. So we get a list
from the Republican Party of Wisconsin, and we tell
them, give us the ones that are really going to go out
and vote because we really need them.
April 7th. Colin Roberts, a member of
the Milwaukee County Dems, is knocking doors for Chris
Taylor. >> Oh, okay. Could I ask
who you plan on voting for? >> The Democratic okay.
>> Yeah, yeah. So yeah. Chris Taylor.
>> Technically Supreme Court elections are
nonpartizan and candidates use labels like
conservative or liberal instead of Republican or
Democrat. But in reality, the Democratic and
Republican parties of Wisconsin each donate
millions of dollars and coordinate thousands of
volunteers in the get out the vote effort.
>> I just think going everywhere is the key and
talking to people. >> Hello, ma'am, I'm Chris
Taylor, so nice to meet you. So nice to meet you,
Cornelius. Oh, you have my vote. Oh.
>> Thank you. The Liberal candidate has won four out
of the last five Supreme Court elections, flipping a
court that in 2019 had A52 conservative majority. If
Taylor wins, Liberals will hold A52 majority.
>> How many of. You are fired up to protect our
democracy? All right. >> We are looking at a
court that is now 4 to 3. When I win, it will stay 4
to 3. We're not changing its composition, but the
three votes are so very important.
>> Republicans around the state have expressed worry
the backlash to Donald Trump's presidency and
political realignment have led to this losing streak.
>> I don't know if it's impacted morale. What I
will say is this I think that the state of Wisconsin
is looking at these races and they're asking who's
running and why people are running and for what reason.
And when I look at this race, the reason I am
running is because I want to be someone on that court
who represents the law for the state of Wisconsin.
>> Taylor wants to make sure her supporters don't
get complacent with the winning streak.
>> There's four more state Supreme Court elections
coming up after mine. No one should take anything
for granted. This court can change very quickly, but if
I am able to get elected, there will be a
pro-democracy majority on the court until at least
2030. >> In their wins. Rebecca
Dallet, Jill Karofsky, Janet Protasiewicz and
Susan Crawford each received 55% of the vote.
The 1 conservative victory in this streak was in 2019,
when Bryan Hagedorn won by less than 6000 votes, half
a percent. That was a low turnout election, with a
million fewer voters than last year. Hagedorn was
outspent and written off by most election observers who
expected to see him lose easily. It's no surprise
Lazar hopes this election ends up following the same
pattern. >> Well, secretly, yes. So
the parallels are there. I think that through my
entire career, people have underestimated me. It's
sort of been a theme that they don't think someone a
little shorter, a little, little softer spoken can be
as strong as steel. And I am. And in this race, I
think that's important too. People think that, you know,
it's written off, it's a done deal and it's not.
>> Taylor is aware of the Hagedorn comparisons.
>> I won't rest until April 8th, the day after this
election. I take nothing for granted. This is going
to be a hard, competitive race. I will need every
vote that I can get. I need all the help that I can get
from the people. >> The state of.
>> Wisconsin this weekend will feature the final push
for get out the vote efforts.
>> I really feel like the people now are really
getting involved at this level, and we're getting
more signs out. We're getting we're just really
getting the grassroots going on.
>> With volunteers knocking on doors and reminding
their supporters to vote on Tuesday.
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