So Protasiewicz wins, but looking like R might win WI Senate seat

[NCDem47]

All this talk of the R legislature turning around and impeaching her. Play it out for me…can Rs pull that off? Who would replace her?

So…F’n…infuriating! Talk me down someone.

[yourout]

1. I would hope they wouldn't do it but I've lived here long enough...

To not put anything past the low-life scum suckers.

[AllyCat]

9. Yeah, they are truly terrible people.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

2. Special election is NOT done

Link to tweet

?s=20

[triron]

5. Good news.

[TigressDem]

6. Link to VOTE tracker

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/04/04/us/elections/results-wisconsin-spring-elections.html


State Legislature
State Senate District 8 Special Election
Latest results from 8m ago 11:03PM ET

93% of votes in

Candidate Dan Knodl
Party Republican
Votes 36,793
Percent Pct. 50.50%


Dan Knodl Jodi Habush Sinykin
Party Democrat
Votes 36,070
Percent Pct. 49.50

Total reported
72,863

[Johnny2X2X]

3. They won't have the votes

They won’t get everyone in their party to go along for impeaching for zero reason.

[JohnSJ]

4. Didn't the Wisconsin legislature vote to take powers away from Evers, such as replacement

appointments?

[AllyCat]

8. Yes. They suck. They will vote as one tiny mind.

[AllyCat]

7. It's super close. Closer than I ever thought it would be.

Don’t count Jodi out yet. Still, I had expected her to not prevail.

[Marius25]

10. Per the WI Constitution, Judges can only be removed by 2/3rds of both chambers

They only have that number in the Senate.

They can impeach Evers though, but then his Lt. Governor takes over, who appoints her own Lt. Governor.

It would be so politically stupid for them to start impeaching Democrats for no reason to cling to power when they just got destroyed in the Supreme Court race.

[TigressDem]

11. GAINING:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/04/04/us/elections/results-wisconsin-spring-elections.html


State Legislature
State Senate District 8 Special Election
Latest results from 8m ago 11:13PM ET

94% of votes in

Candidate Dan Knodl
Party Republican
Votes 37,113
Percent Pct. 50.37%


Dan Knodl Jodi Habush Sinykin
Party Democrat
Votes 36,563
Percent Pct. 49.63

Total reported
73,676


R lead slipped from around 723 to 550 in 10 minutes.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

12. One thing I'm keeping in mind

The quote wasn't "We'll impeach him," it was "If they impeach him."

I think there would be a lot more hair on fire from party officials and newscasters if this was more than campaign rhetoric to get out the vote.

[Demsrule86]

13. I just learned from another DU article that there are 5 heavily Democrat precincts

still out.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

14. I'm digging into that with the sources I can find on Twitter

It's total fog of war about those precincts. I'm seeing some that there are 0 recorded votes in some of them, some that they are all Democratic, some that the Waukesha ones are red and the Milwaukee ones are blue...
I don't think anyone has any clue what is still out there, and that's why it hasn't been called...

[Demsrule86]

16. That is true and no one has called this race either...so I think it could go either way.

[yourout]

15. I'm pretty sure they're going to pull out every dirty trick and delay tactic humanly possible..

Because I think they know if the gerrymandering gets undone they're going to be screwed for at least a decade.

They know they are a minority party and the only way they can maintain control is through gaming the system.