Sun­ny Hostin says Wis­con­sin Supreme Court elec­tion is a ‘ref­er­en­dum’ on Trump and Musk

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Sunny Hostin says Wisconsin Supreme Court election is a ‘referendum’ on Trump and Musk

On a recent episode of ABC News’s The View, co-host Sun­ny Hostin dis­cussed the sig­nif­i­cant impli­ca­tions of the Wis­con­sin Supreme Court spe­cial elec­tion, call­ing it a “ref­er­en­dum” on both Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump and Depart­ment of Gov­ern­ment Effi­cien­cy leader Elon Musk.

The elec­tion saw Judge Susan Craw­ford, sup­port­ed by Democ­rats, emerge vic­to­ri­ous over Judge Brad Schimel, who had been backed by Musk and oth­er con­ser­v­a­tive forces.

Hostin empha­sized that the race reflect­ed grow­ing dis­con­tent among vot­ers with the influ­ence of pow­er­ful fig­ures such as Trump and Musk on the demo­c­ra­t­ic process.

“I would say it’s a ref­er­en­dum on Trump and def­i­nite­ly a ref­er­en­dum on Musk,” Hostin said on Wednes­day. “He’s lost more mon­ey in Tes­la stock than you can imag­ine. He bought his com­pa­ny back, but I do think Amer­i­cans are say­ing, ‘Mr. Musk, you don’t get to come in here and buy our courts and buy our elec­tions and buy pow­er. You don’t get to do that.’”

How­ev­er, the Wash­ing­ton Exam­in­er‘s Chief polit­i­cal cor­re­spon­dent, Byron York, cast doubt on the idea that the Wis­con­sin Supreme Court elec­tion could be a reli­able gauge of pub­lic sen­ti­ment.

“I’m not sure if these are great tests,” York said dur­ing an appear­ance on Fox News’s Amer­i­ca Reports. “Wis­con­sin is very close, of course. Trump won Wis­con­sin by less than one point, and we’ve had these bat­tles in Wis­con­sin before. I’m not sure that either result — whether a Repub­li­can or Demo­c­rat wins in this so-called non­par­ti­san race—would tell us much about Trump.”

Dur­ing The View episode, Joy Behar not­ed how Musk had poured mil­lions into the race, hop­ing to sway the results in favor of Repub­li­cans.

“What it’s say­ing to me is that Amer­i­cans have had it,” Behar added, not­ing that the Flori­da spe­cial elec­tions were “very close.”

“Amer­i­cans are fed up. Peo­ple are watch­ing and lis­ten­ing, see­ing their rights being erod­ed, their mon­ey tak­en away, Social Secu­ri­ty threat­ened, and peo­ple being fired en masse. They’re start­ing to catch on to what this regime is doing,” Behar con­tin­ued.

“You know when infla­tion is out of con­trol when you can’t buy an elec­tion for $20 mil­lion,” Behar quipped about Musk’s mon­ey in the Wis­con­sin elec­tion.

WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT RACE MAY NOT BE INDICTATOR OF TRUMP AGENDA: BYRON YORK

Cohost Whoopi Gold­berg said that Musk’s DOGE efforts are upset­ting the pub­lic.

“Peo­ple don’t like it when you fire vets,” she claimed. “You’re fir­ing fed­er­al work­ers, and you’re not telling me why. You might have said, ‘I’m going to clean this swamp,’ but you’re not telling me how you’re clean­ing it. You’re just going in, and you’re grab­bing stuff.”