Elon Musk spent $ 20 million in Wisconsin adjudicate to elect a MAGA judge to the state Supreme Court , just to lose by 10 point on Tuesday . And there are already report card that Musk ’s prison term in the White House may be limited due to President Donald Trump ’s patiencewearing thin . But if you expect leaders of the Democratic Party , who see the billionaire oligarch as electoral poison , they want Musk to keep campaigning for Republicans .
The Democratic National Committee held a pressure call Wednesday to celebrate the party ’s victory in Wisconsin , encouraging Musk to keep being the public font of the Republican Party .
“ We should be putting Elon Musk into every state right now campaigning because he ’s actually a huge boon to Democrats right now , ” order DNC chairwoman Ken Martin . “ And frankly , the American multitude are quite disappointed with this guy and what he ’s been doing since Donald Trump was introduce . So the more Elon Musk want to get out there , I say go for it , Elon . There ’s plenty of other commonwealth we ’d love you to fight in . ”
Elon Musk tosses a signed cheesehead hat into the audience during an America PAC town hall ahead of the Wisconsin Supreme Court election at the KI Convention Center in Green Bay, Wisconsin, US, on Sunday, 26 February 2025.© Jamie Kelter Davis/Bloomberg via Getty Images
The chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin Ben Wikler echoed that sentiment , aim out the destruction Musk has wrought as thehead of DOGE , the so - called Department of Government Efficiency , which has unilaterally take apart federal federal agency like USAID and fired tens of thousands of federal workers .
“ Elon Musk ’s disbursement comes with it the contamination of an administration that is lash out Social Security , that is dismantle unification , that is ravaging the Veterans Administration , that is doing things that have always been recognize to be political self-annihilation , ” Wikler read . “ And for Elon Musk to then bind himself to Republican prospect is the political kiss of death . ”
But Wikler also seemed to jollify in the fact that Musk was still in the White House , perhaps betraying the Democratic Party ’s tendency to focalize too heavy on optics and election rather than the core of what Musk is destruct in between elections .
“ I go for that he stays at the White House with Donald Trump , ” Wikler said of Musk , “ that they come along together in the Oval Office , that he dominates console meetings , and that he pose for picture with every member of the Republican House and Senate . ”
The posing part makes sense . The Tesla CEO is likely toxic to regular voter if the voter turnout tally in Wisconsin on Tuesday is any guide — to say nothing of theprotestsandvandalismat Tesla dealerships around the world . But Wikler ’s content that Musk should continue to be involved in day - to - 24-hour interval decision by the Trump regime understandably runs counter to what Democrats should want . And Wikler may have realized his verbal slip - up , later enounce during the press call that he wanted Musk to get stripped of any real ability .
“ Elon Musk should become Donald Trump ’s particular envoy for midterm exam elections and go out and talk on the campaign trail in every potential commonwealth in every potential territory , ” Wikler said . “ At the same time , Elon Musk should be removed as quickly as possible from any position of great power over the Union government . The damage that he ’s doing to irreparable institutions that have do families across the country of Wisconsin and across the area , it ’s a horror . Elon Musk is gutting the Social Security Administration , gutting the Veterans Administration . ”
Democrats have eventually set off to push back against Musk in various ways , though some tactic may prove to be more effective than others . Rep. Jamie Raskin , ranking extremity of the House Judiciary Committee , sent a letterWednesday to FBI managing director Kash Patel ask for an probe into Musk ’s necktie to China . It ’s an important ask , given Musk ’s interest in interfere with global political relation from Germany to the UK .
But Democrats clear need to think back that this is n’t just about winning or lose elections . The part that really matters is what occur in between those elections . And while Musk might be hurting Republicans at the voting box powerful now , he can still do wondrous damage between now and the next election .
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