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How Special Is Your Election?

Evaluating the early bellwethers in Wisconsin and Florida, the health of the Dem #Resistance, and the Elon of it all.

Elon Musk
The question on everyone’s mind in Wisconsin is whether Musk is an asset or a liability for Republicans—a factor both parties will be weighing come the 2026 midterms. Photo: Jamie Kelter Davis/Bloomberg/Getty Images
Peter Hamby
April 2, 2025

The results from Tuesday’s elections—two special House contests in Florida and a historically expensive judicial race in Wisconsin—are probably starting to trickle in as this column hits your inboxes tonight. If today’s contests snuck up on you, well, you should have been listening to Elon Musk, who told an audience of Republicans in Green Bay over the weekend that the Wisconsin Supreme Court Election is “going to affect the entire destiny of humanity.”