Even if election fatigue from 2024 hasn’t fully subsided, it’s important to take a minute and focus on Wisconsin, Tom Tiffany, a U.S. House member from the state, said on American Family Radio Tuesday.
Voters in Wisconsin go to the polls on April 1 to fill a vacancy on their state's Supreme Court, a seven-member body that is currently split 3-3 between liberals and conservatives.
Liberal justice Ann Walsh Bradley is retiring. The candidates on the ballot next week are Democrat circuit court judge Susan Crawford and former state Republican attorney general Brad Schimel.
Liberals are fighting to maintain a 4-3 edge they won in 2023. If successful, one of their first priorities will be redrawing federal elections map in Wisconsin – something that would have a negative impact on Republicans nationwide, Tiffany told show host Jenna Ellis.
“The liberal candidate said two months ago to a group of liberal donors, mega donors like George Soros and others, we could change the map in Wisconsin, the federal map, and get rid of two Republicans out of the state of Wisconsin,” the congressman explained. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has said the same thing, according to Tiffany.
Republicans currently have a five-seat majority in the U.S. House. Two lost votes could drastically change the landscape.
“Look at some of the votes that we've had over the last month where we've won by two votes, critical bills like the continuing resolution [to fund the government]; they are winning by just a couple votes. If we lose two, those would be tie votes and these bills would not pass. Our razor-thin majority is at stake in Wisconsin,” Tiffany emphasized.
And two lost seats would throw a wrench into codifying many of Donald Trump’s executive orders, something for which many congressional Republicans have called but hasn’t gotten done yet.
Crawford, the Democratic candidate, “has clearly signaled that they will take up these maps and redraw them,” Tiffany added.
Wisconsin has eight congressional districts. Redrawing the maps to split districts in Milwaukee and Madison, home to the University of Wisconsin, would give Democrats the edge they seek, Tiffany said.
Will Wisconsin become ‘Illinois lite’?
“Take a look at our neighbor to the south, Illinois. We’re going to become like Illinois if we don’t get the right candidate here. You look at some of those districts that snake through Illinois, and you’ll see the same thing happen here in Wisconsin,” he said.
According to Tiffany, if Democrats regain a House majority among their first priorities will be the impeachment of Trump.
“That's the first thing that they're going to do. We want to have a successful four years of President Trump, not just two years,” Tiffany added.
Trump has endorsed Schimel and accused Crawford of being a "radical Left liberal" who has been soft on crime. Early voting is up nearly 48% over the same point two years ago.
