Republicans put Pennsylvania and Wisconsin back in the win column in the 2024 presidential race.
Authors show off books at the Jacksonville Urban Book FestivalMan fatally struck by car on I-95 North at CR-210 in St. Johns CountyFILE - A sign on a door at The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania at the Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Feb. 21, 2023.
FILE - This combination of file photos shows former Republican attorney general Brad Schimel and Susan Crawford. “For both sides, these races seem much, much higher profile than they used to be,” said J.J. Abbott, who runs Commonwealth Communications, a progressive advocacy group in Pennsylvania.have become some of the most expensive and bitterly fought over the past few years, given how central those courts are in deciding divisive issues.Republicans are optimistic after Trump won both states in November.
In the upcoming races, Democrats say they will portray the state high courts as a bulwark against the conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court, the Trump administration and a GOP-controlled Congress.and in 2023's state Supreme Court campaigns in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Those races took place the year after the U.S.
In 2023, business associations, political party campaign arms, Planned Parenthood, partisan advocacy groups, labor unions, lawyers' groups, environmental organizations and wealthy GOP donors, including Richard Uihlein and Jeffrey Yass, pushed spending above $70 million in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
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