Musk Now Claims He “Expected To Lose” WI Election

Politico reports:

Musk catapulted the state Supreme Court election into national view, vocally backing conservative candidate Brad Schimel — who also clinched President Donald Trump’s endorsement — and pouring millions into the efforts to get him elected. The Wisconsin election, Musk claimed, would decide the trajectory of not only the whole country, but perhaps all of “Western civilization” and “the future of the world,” as he said in a Spaces conversation on X hours before polls closed Tuesday.

After warning of the dire stakes for the election, Musk changed his tune in the hours following the crushing defeat, seemingly indicating that the loss was all part of a bigger plan. “I expected to lose, but there is value to losing a piece for a positional gain,” Musk replied to an X user early Wednesday morning. Musk spent the last several weeks urgently campaigning on Schimel’s behalf, including a closing weekend appearance in the state.

Read the full article. Musk is now claiming that a separate ballot measure that merely enshrined a preexisting voter ID law in the state constitution was the “big win” he was hoping for. Yeah. Trump has posted an identical claim, but earlier he posted the rant below.

Schimel lost. pic.twitter.com/G2rpMBMtgG

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 2, 2025