Are the Wisconsin Supreme Court Results Really a ‘Five-Alarm Warning’ for Republicans in 2024?

A “five-alarm warning to Republicans about 2024.” That’s what the Wall Street Journal editorial board said of the results of last week’s Wisconsin supreme court race, which saw liberal judge Janet Protasiewicz defeat conservative judge Dan Kelly by ten points.

After the race, which cemented a liberal majority on the state supreme court for the first time in 15 years, the editorial board warned that the GOP’s “legislative majorities will soon be imperiled, and you can move Wisconsin out of the swing-state column for the Presidency in 2024” if Republicans can’t keep hold of a longtime GOP stronghold in the Milwaukee suburbs, where a Republican candidate for the state Senate “barely won.”

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A “five-alarm warning to Republicans about 2024.” That’s what the Wall Street Journal editorial board said of the results of last week’s Wisconsin supreme court race, which saw liberal judge Janet Protasiewicz defeat conservative judge Dan Kelly by ten points.

After the race, which cemented a liberal majority on the state supreme court for the first time in 15 years, the editorial board warned that the GOP’s “legislative majorities will soon be imperiled, and you can move Wisconsin out of the swing-state column for the Presidency in 2024” if Republicans can’t keep hold of a longtime GOP stronghold in the Milwaukee suburbs, where a Republican candidate for the state Senate “barely won.”