DNC to make the first post-voting investment into the Wisconsin Supreme Court race

The Democratic National Committee will announce on Tuesday the earliest-investing new election cycles into the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, which will make district judges Dane Susan Crawford, a candidate supported by Democrats, taking Brad Schimel supported by the Republican party, former State Attorney General and Waukesha Regional Judges at this time, ABC News has learned exclusively.

To help increase organization in the field, the Democratic Party will host the telephone bank and call more than 2 million Wisconsin voters to support Crawford.

The new DNC investment will be used for land operations, including organizing, peer-to-peer text, and mobilizing thousands of volunteers to help the Wisconsin Democratic campaign. Last month, Chairman of DNC Ken Martin was in Wisconsin which was invorations for the Wisconsin Democratic Coordinated Campaign.

The April 1 election will decide who will take an open seats in court and whether the bench will remain controlled by liberal judges or switches to the majority of conservatives, with major cases involving abortion, redistricting, and election laws raised.

The investment made by DNC came on the first day of the initial voting at Wisconsin and marked the first investment by the organization since the 2024 election.

This race will also review how voters in the state of the battlefield feel that several months entering the second term of office of President Donald Trump. Trump won the country with only under 30,000 voters in the 2024 election.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court race is also seen as an indication of Elon Musk’s influence outside of Washington and how Democrats try to push back to the richest people in the world, connecting it to Schimel, a candidate supported by the Republic.

“With Wisconsin voters against the richest people in the world, this is a moment of all hands-in-head and we are happy to get support from DNC in this fight,” said Ben Wikler, Chairman of the Democratic Party Wisconsin. “Elections in Wisconsin often come to hairsbreadth, and every voter that we can change to support judge Susan Crawford and Dr. Jill fundamental on April 1 can make a difference between maintaining wisconsin in the path of progress or letting Elon Musk and Donald Trump drag us back.”

A conservative group related to Musk, building the future of America, has spent more than $ 1.6 million for television advertisements in the race, while others, Musk Pac America PAC Musk, have spent more than $ 6 million for efforts to come out and digital media, according to state campaign financial records.

“When I went to Wisconsin to knock on the door last month, people told me that they did not want billionaires like Elon Musk who run our federal government and they certainly do not want him to buy our election,” Martin said in a statement.

But billionaires have also invested to support Crawford, including George Soros and Democratic Governor Illinois JB Pritzker.

Although Trump does not support Schimel, Musk urged X last month for people -people For “Vote Republican for the Supreme Court of Wisconsin to prevent voting fraud!”

DNC also works to support the Wisconsin Democratic Coordinated campaign, with the new state party to announce the “People vs Musk” campaign to push back to the influence of Musk in the competition.

The State Supreme Court race is the most expensive judicial race in US history, according to Center for BrennanNon -profit public policy institute.

On Monday, more than $ 59 million was spent in a race, which according to the Think Tank institution broke the record for the most expenditure in the selection of the State Supreme Court, beyond the estimated $ 56 million as outlined in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race 2023.

ABC News’ Oren Oppenheim contributed to this report.