The $1 million comes on top of $1.5 million from another Elon Musk-backed group for TV ads in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race backing Brad Schimel.

The funds raised so far by the candidates far set the stage for another record-setting race for the state’s highest court.

A conservative nonprofit backed by billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk is getting involved in a race that will determine the political direction of the highest court in one of the country’s most important presidential battleground states.

Not satisfied with massively remaking Washington, the tech mogul’s allies look to exert his influence in the states.

Schimel, as Wisconsin’s attorney general from 2015 to 2019, defended the state’s strict voter ID law in court and claimed it was a key reason why Trump won Wisconsin in 2016. He also sent Department of Justice staff to monitor the polls in heavily Democratic areas in that election, which Democrats viewed as voter intimidation.

But conservatives say wealthy liberals are also making big donations in the contest between Susan Crawford and Brad Schimel.

Elon Musk and Richard Uihlein — have spent $2.8 million on TV ads helping Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel.

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