During a recent campaign stop in Waukesha, Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel warmed up the crowd by doing his best President Donald Trump impression. It was a retelling of the call he had received from the president just a few days earlier.

The election, which will top the $56 million record for spending on a judicial race, is seen as a referendum on Republican President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, who is leading the effort to fire thousands of federal workers,

President Trump on Monday slammed Democrat-backed judge Susan Crawford as a “radical left lunatic” ahead of Tuesday’s high stakes Wisconsin Supreme Court election . “It’s a big race,” Trump said of the showdown between Crawford, a Dane County judge, and Brad Schimel, a Waukesha County judge and former Republican attorney general.

Conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel has accused the current justices of "playing politics" by slow-walking a key abortion decision to keep the politically potent issue in play through the April 1 election — though one expert said the delay is "not yet remarkably unusual" compared to other cases.

The country's most expensive court race has high stakes for the state and could test the popularity of the Trump administration in its early days.

President Trump promoted the conservative candidate Brad Schimel ahead of Tuesday’s Wisconsin Supreme Court vote, which is seen as the first test of the second Trump term. “Brad Schimel’s Opponent,

Kansas could move to judicial elections, like the one happening for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, where Elon Musk and George Soros are spending money.

That outside cash has made the race the most expensive judicial election in U.S. history, with more than $81 million spent, crushing the record set in 2023.