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   Democrats scored a significant victory in Wisconsin on Monday night when a   
   liberal challenger upset a Trump-backed incumbent to win a State Supreme   
   Court seat, a down-ballot race that illustrated strong turnout and vote-   
   by-mail efforts in a presidential battleground state.   
      
   The victory, by upward of 120,000 votes as of Monday night, came as a   
   shock to Republicans and Democrats alike in Wisconsin, where contests for   
   president, governor and the state’s high court in the last four years   
   have all been decided by about 30,000 votes or less. It followed weeks of   
   Democratic anger over Republicans’ insistence on holding elections amid   
   the coronavirus pandemic.   
      
   Wisconsin’s map on Monday night looked like a dream general election   
   result for former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., the presumptive   
   Democratic nominee — stronger than typical for Democrats in the suburbs   
   and a respectable showing among the state’s blue-collar white voters in   
   rural counties. But officials from both parties cautioned against   
   overinterpreting the Supreme Court results, given the bizarre   
   circumstances surrounding the high court race.   
      
   The challenger for the court seat, Jill Karofsky, ousted the conservative   
   incumbent, Justice Daniel Kelly, in a contest with broad potential   
   implications for voting rights in Wisconsin’s November general election.   
   Justice Kelly became just the second incumbent State Supreme Court justice   
   to be ousted at the polls since 1967. President Trump had boasted that his   
   endorsement of Justice Kelly had unnerved Democrats in the state.   
      
   Ms. Karofsky’s surprise triumph came after Republicans in the State   
   Legislature, and later conservatives on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court,   
   rebuffed Democratic efforts to move the date of the elections — held last   
   week but with the results delayed until Monday by a federal judge — or   
   send mail ballots to all voters because of the pandemic.   
   The decisive Democratic win offered a signal that the party, highly   
   energized and mobilized heading into 2020, could organize and execute a   
   winning get-out-the-vote program against strident Republican efforts to   
   limit voter turnout in a narrowly divided state widely expected to be   
   crucial in this fall’s presidential election.   
      
   https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/us/politics/wisconsin-primary-   
   results.html   
      
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