With it’s proximity to the Gulf and status as Trump’s best performing district in Florida in the 2024 election, you might think the real estate market in Florida’s 1st Congressional District would be a hotbed for advertising “Gulf of America” frontage.
But in a survey of 599 Zillow listings for condos/townhomes in the district that have popped up in the past month, 245 mention proximity to the Gulf or Gulf views as a selling point. And only 5% refer to it as the Gulf of America, with the majority (69%) mentioning the gulf generically and 26% referring to it as the Gulf of Mexico.
Polls just closed in the 1st District at 8 p.m. ET.
An overhead announcement came on at the White House earlier this evening, declaring: “You have a dinner lid until 8:47.”
A “lid” is a term the White House press office uses to signal to reporters that there will be no more news, until the lid is lifted. The final lid of the day also means that reporters covering the White House are free to go home since the president isn’t expected to have any more public activities.
Confused groans could be heard from the press hallway today as reporters stared down the prospect of an unexpected late night at work. A radio pool reporter joked that the announcement nearly gave her a heart attack.
Less than a minute later, a second overhead announcement followed: “April Fools!”
The White House then officially issued a lid for the day, but not before wishing everyone a “Happy Liberation Day eve!”
Trump has declared April 2 as “Liberation Day,” when he’s expected to put in place a tariff plan that he says will help equalize the U.S. with its trading partners.
With 81% of the votes reported in Florida’s 6th Congressional District, NBC News has projected the race for Fine, the GOP nominee. But his strong lead isn’t as strong as the previous incumbent got in 2024.
Take a look at a few counties where all the votes are in. Fine currently holds 58% of the vote in Florida’s Lake County, but in November, Waltz carried that slice of the district with 68%.
In Florida’s Flagler County, Fine holds 57% of the vote with 22,218 votes, with Weil trailing at 42% with 16,529 votes. Waltz led in that portion of the district in 2024 with 66% of the vote and 51,079 ballots.
If that pattern holds across the district, Fine will run approximately 10 points behind Waltz’s 2024 levels, while the Democratic candidate will improve by about 10 points.
Republican state Sen. Randy Fine has prevailed in a special congressional election in Florida today, NBC News projects, though the race is shaping up to be closer than November’s results in the deeply Republican district.
Fine was leading Democrat Josh Weil 54%-46% when the NBC News Decision Desk called the race with 73% of the expected vote in.
The 6th District race was giving some Republicans heartburn, with Weil vastly outraising Fine and Fine slow to launch TV ads. President Donald Trump carried the district, which includes Daytona Beach, by 30 points in November, but outside Republican groups hit the airwaves in the final days as the race appeared to be competitive.
Trump himself also engaged to help turn out his supporters, as Democrats looked to leverage lower turnout in a special election and energy among the party’s grassroots to oppose the president. Trump issued multiple Truth Social posts and held two tele-town halls last week for Fine and Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis, the Republican in the 1st District special election in the Panhandle to replace former GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz. Polls close in the 1st District at 8 p.m. ET.
Sen. Cory Booker set the record for the longest speech in Senate history this evening in marathon remarks that began last night and tore into what he called the Trump administration’s “grave and urgent” threat to the country.
Booker, a New Jersey Democrat, surpassed the previous record of 24 hours and 18 minutes set in 1957 by Sen. Strom Thurmond. And he’s still going.
His remarks went viral — the live feed of the speech on Booker’s TikTok account had more than 220 million likes by tonight, and users were posting fan edits.
“Twelve hours now I’m standing, and I’m still going strong because this president is wrong, and he’s violating principles that we hold dear and principles in this document that are so clear and plain,” Booker said around 7 a.m., holding up a copy of the Constitution.
Trump announced today that his administration reached an agreement with Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, one of the law firms to come into the administration’s cross-hairs.
The firm will take a series of actions in accordance to the agreement, Trump said on Truth Social, including providing $100 million in pro bono legal representation to causes Trump and the firm “both support” relating to assisting veterans and other public servants such as law enforcement; “ensuring fairness in our Justice System”; and combating antisemitism.
Additionally, it will additionally “not engage” DEI in its hiring practices and will not deny representation to clients “because of the personal political views of individual lawyers,” Trump said.
Former second gentleman Doug Emhoff is a partner at the firm.
The announcement follows similar agreements between the Trump administration and other prominent law firms, including Paul Weiss and Skadden Arps.
“Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP proactively reached out to President Trump and his Administration, offering their decisive commitment to ending the Weaponization of the Justice System and the Legal Profession,” the White House said in a statement included in Trump’s post.
A statement Trump attributed to the firm’s chairman Thomas Cerabino in his post said, “The Firm looks forward to having a constructive relationship with the Trump Administration, and remains committed to serving the needs of our clients, our employees, and the communities of which we are a part.”
Musk said during a Fox News interview this afternoon that an unnamed person whom he alleged was responsible for stealing more than 400,000 Social Security numbers would be arrested “hopefully this week.”
“When I see that terrible fraud has happened, I’m like, why haven’t we arrested someone already?” Musk said this afternoon, adding that an arrest was forthcoming.
The comments come after Musk said during a telerally last night in support of conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel, “I believe someone is going to be arrested tomorrow,” when asked about Attorney General Pam Bondi prosecuting fraud in the Social Security system.
The Department of Justice has not publicly announced any such investigation or arrest.
Musk has advanced a series of claims about Social Security fraud to promote cuts made by the Department of Government Efficiency. Responding to a question yesterday about where he anticipated he would find the most fraud, he said “it’s going to be a contest between the IRS, Social Security and Medicare, Medicaid, but I could be proven wrong. But that’s probably where, where it’s going to be.”
U.S. ally Japan is pushing hard for an exemption from 25% U.S. auto tariffs set to take effect Thursday, its prime minister said.
Automobiles are Japan’s top export to the U.S., according to customs data. Companies such as Toyota, the world’s top-selling automaker and one of the top-selling brands in the U.S., could be especially vulnerable, CNBC reported, even though it has production facilities across the U.S.
“Japan is the largest investor in the U.S. In light of this, we will continue to strongly urge the U.S. to exempt our nation,” Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba told reporters in Tokyo today.
Ishiba added that his government was examining the tariff’s potential impact on domestic industries and employment and would “take all necessary measures” to protect the Japanese economy.
Trump will meet with Vice President JD Vance and other advisers tomorrow to discuss an offer for TikTok as a deadline nears to keep the social media app running in the U.S, two people familiar with the plans tell NBC News.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and national security adviser Michael Waltz are also expected to participate in the Oval Office meeting, one of the sources said.
The scheduled meeting was first reported by CBS News. White House spokespeople did not immediately respond to requests for additional details.
TikTok’s fate in the U.S. has been in doubt since last year, when then-President Joe Biden signed bipartisan legislation that forced the app’s Chinese-based owner, ByteDance, to sell the app to a non-Chinese buyer or face a nationwide ban. No such deal came to fruition, and Trump extended the deadline via an executive order on his first day in office, effectively giving TikTok until Saturday to find a solution that would keep it online. Trump also tapped Vance and Waltz to shepherd a deal.
Michigan’s Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, has postponed a speech scheduled for Thursday in Washington, D.C., to remain in her home state as it sustains a series of severe storms.
“She must postpone the speech to remain in Michigan, coordinating the state’s emergency response efforts after northern Michigan has faced extreme ice storms. With additional severe weather on the way, she is focused on assisting recovery efforts and providing resources,” Whitmer’s office said in a statement today.
The speech, which Whitmer’s office said will be rescheduled, was expected to focus on bipartisan strategies for shared manufacturing, supply chain and national defense issues. Whitmer was also expected to sit down with former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson following her remarks.
At 4:20 p.m., Booker’s marathon speech overtook Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, whose 2013 filibuster of the Affordable Care Act lasted 21 hours and 19 minutes. Cruz responded to the news by tweeting an image of Homer Simpson crying.
Booker now has the fourth-longest Senate floor speech in history.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke today, a day before the Trump administration is set to expand sweeping tariffs.
“The leaders had a productive call, discussing the importance of building upon the strong trading and investment relationship between the two countries, to benefit Canadians and Mexicans alike,” according to Carney’s office.
The statement added, “With challenging times ahead, Prime Minister Carney and President Sheinbaum emphasized the importance of safeguarding North American competitiveness while respecting the sovereignty of each nation. Prime Minister Carney also highlighted his plan to fight unjustified trade actions against Canada, protect Canadian workers’ businesses, and build Canada’s economy, including through increased trade between Canada and Mexico.”
The Trump administration first imposed the tariffs on Canada and Mexico earlier this month and issued exemptions for goods that comply with the North American trade deal. Those exemptions expire tomorrow.
Asked whether Trump plans to extend those exemptions, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters at the daily briefing that she didn’t want to get ahead of Trump’s announcement tomorrow.
“Look, I will let the president speak on the specifics of the tariffs tomorrow,” she said.
Senate HELP Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy, R-La., and ranking member Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., have invited Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to testify before the committee on the “reorganization of HHS.”
The hearing, scheduled for April 10, comes as the administration has started to carry out mass layoffs across the department.
Cassidy, who publicly struggled with RFK’s nomination, said that in order to get his support, RFK committed to appear before the HELP committee on a quarterly basis if requested. RFK made several other commitments to Cassidy to secure his vote, including committing to “an unprecedentedly close collaborative working relationship” between them.
This afternoon, a small group of federal workers staked out the Senate basement to talk to senators about federal workforce cuts. In a striking interaction, one fired HHS worker, Mack Schroeder, approached Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., who told him he “deserved” to be fired because he seemed like a “clown.” The interaction was captured in a video Schroeder posted on Instagram.
In the video, Schroeder can be heard saying, “Hi, I was a worker at HHS. I was fired illegally on Feb. 14th. There are many people who are not getting social service programs, especially people with disabilities. Are you going to do anything to stop what’s happening?”
“Uh, you probably deserved it,” said Banks. Schroeder asked Banks why the senators thought he deserved to be fired. Banks replied, “Because you seem like a clown.”
Schroeder told NBC News Banks’s reaction was “really alarming and off-putting.
Banks’ office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment about the exchange.
WASHINGTON — A band of Republican lawmakers brought the House floor to a halt today over a bitter dispute with Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and conservatives in their own party over a plan to allow remote voting for lawmakers who become parents.
A procedural rule vote to advance the House GOP’s package of bills for the week failed 206-222, with nine Republicans bucking GOP leadership and voting with all 213 Democrats. The failed vote means, for now, those pieces of legislation cannot move forward for a final vote.
Shortly after the vote, congressional leaders said that they were sending lawmakers home for the week and would bring them back Monday.
First lady Melania Trump spoke this afternoon at the secretary of state’s 2025 International Women of Courage Award ceremony, highlighting a theme this year of building strength through love.
“Today, we celebrate courage, a strength that is based in love,” Trump said. “This truth is illustrated to our honorees who prove that love can inspire extraordinary valor, even with the face of vulnerability.”
Their remarkable stories are “a testament to the power of love in practice for family, community and our world,” she said.
Melania Trump struck a personal note at the start of her speech, saying she has relied on the “power of love” to “exhibit bravery in the face of unforeseen circumstances” in her own life, but did not go into details.
The speech marked a rare public appearance for the first lady, who has not been in the national spotlight much since her husband’s return to the Oval Office in January. Her remarks this afternoon follow her tradition during the president’s first term of speaking at the annual award ceremony.
The International Women of Courage Award, launched in 2007 by then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, seeks to recognize women across the world who have advanced global human rights and protections for women and girls. This year’s recipients include women who have championed women’s rights causes in Burkina Faso, Israel, Papua New Guinea, Romania, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Yemen and the Philippines.
One Health Department worker spoke with us outside its offices in Rockville, Maryland, amid the layoffs happening today. This staffer — who’s still employed at HHS — did not want to share her name or show her face on camera.
The staffer waited in line for an hour and a half to get into the office this morning with staff who were made to go through magnetometers and increased security. She confirmed that workers found out at the door that they had been fired because the notices came early in the morning.
“So if you’ve already started out to work, you wouldn’t have seen it,” she said. “Or if you didn’t have a work computer with you, you wouldn’t have known until you actually got through the line. And then when you got through the line, if your PIV card didn’t work, then you knew that you were RIFed. So that was your notification.”
She described a lack of clarity in the process for those who had lost their jobs.
“You have to do the offboarding process, and you have to do a whole lot of things there. And we’re like, who do we go to? We don’t know who to go to. There are no instructions of what’s going to happen,” she said.
At least six federal agencies are offering workers a new “deferred resignation” opportunity in the latest attempt by the Trump administration to slash the size of the U.S. government.
Employees at the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Agriculture Department on Monday night received emails, which were obtained by NBC News, presenting them with the option to resign while staying on paid leave for several months. Department of Transportation employees received a similar notice on Tuesday morning about the program, according to an email obtained by NBC News.
Spokespersons for the General Services Administration and the Department of Energy told NBC News that the deferred resignation program was opening up to its eligible employees as well, and the Defense Department said its civilian workforce received a similar offer Friday.
A staff member for Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., was arrested yesterday after carrying a pistol on Capitol grounds without a license, U.S. Capitol Police alleged in a statement.
The employee, Kevin Batts, is listed on the website LegiStorm as a special assistant for Booker in his Newark office.
The Capitol Police said in the statement that a member of Congress led Batts around security in the Hart Senate Office Building yesterday afternoon, so he was not screened. The police agency and Booker’s office didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment about who that member of Congress was.
After entering the Capitol, Batts, a retired law enforcement officer, later told police officers outside the Senate gallery that he was armed, and he was arrested for carrying a pistol without a license, the Capitol Police statement said.
“All weapons are prohibited from Capitol Grounds, even if you are a retired law enforcement officer, or have a permit to carry in another state or the District of Columbia,” the statement said.
NOTUS was first to report the news of the aide’s arrest.
Jeff Giertz, a spokesperson for Booker, said the senator’s office “employs a retired Newark police detective as a New Jersey-based driver who often accompanies him to events. We are working to better understand the circumstances around this.”
China, Japan and South Korea will jointly respond to U.S. tariffs, Chinese state media said, though Tokyo and Seoul pushed back against the assertion.
Japan and South Korea are looking to import semiconductor raw materials from China, while China may purchase chip products from the two U.S. allies, Yuyuan Tantian, a social media account tied to the state-run broadcaster CCTV, said yesterday in a post on the Chinese social media platform Weibo.
The three countries also agreed to strengthen supply chain cooperation and discuss export controls, it said.
The South Korean Trade Ministry said the report was “somewhat exaggerated,” while the Japanese trade minister said there was no such discussion, Reuters reported.
China, Japan and South Korea, which have often been at odds over a number of issues, held their first economic dialogue in five years Sunday in Seoul as they brace for additional tariffs from the U.S., with which they all have strong trade relationships.
In a statement after that meeting, the three countries reaffirmed that “trilateral efforts in the economic and trade sectors are essential for fostering the prosperity and stability of the regional and global economy.”
Separately, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told Russia’s RIA state news agency in an interview published today that increased U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods were unfounded and “will cause serious damage not only to the global market and trade order, but also to the reputation of the States themselves,” Reuters reported.
Trump still plans to impose auto-related tariffs this week, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters at today’s daily briefing.
Leavitt made the comment after she was asked if those tariffs would still take effect April 3. “Yes, they will,” she said. She added that April 2 would “go down as one of the most important days in modern American history” as the White House is set to impose reciprocal tariffs.
“Those days of America, beginning tomorrow, being ripped off are over,” she said. “The president’s historic action tomorrow will improve American competitiveness in every area of industry, reduce our massive trade deficits and ultimately protect our economic and national security.”
Leavitt added, “If you make your product in America, you will pay no tariffs.”
The Trump administration is planning to slap sweeping tariffs on a wide range of goods tomorrow, and the U.S. will begin collecting them Thursday.
Trump and the White House have already said that they would impose 25% tariffs on all foreign-made autos and parts even if the vehicles are manufactured in the U.S.
Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, whose 1991 film “JFK” portrayed President John F. Kennedy’s assassination as the work of a shadowy government conspiracy, is set to testify to Congress today about thousands of newly released government documents surrounding the killing.
Scholars say the files that Trump ordered to be released showed nothing undercutting the conclusion that a lone gunman killed Kennedy. Many documents were previously released but contained newly removed redactions, including Social Security numbers, angering people whose personal information was disclosed.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said this morning there is a ‘constitutional path’ for Trump to seek a third presidential term, but acknowledged it would require an amendment to the Constitution.
“I just told everybody to read the Constitution, there’s a constitutional path,” Johnson told NBC News. “You have to amend the Constitution to do it, and that’s a high bar.”
Johnson added that while he and Trump have “joked about it,” he believes Trump “recognizes the constitutional limitations.”
The speaker’s comments come days after Trump told NBC News that he is “not joking” about the possibility of seeking a third term, which the Constitution prohibits, and claimed that there are “methods” for doing so.
Democratic officials in 23 states and Washington, D.C., sued the Trump administration over its decision to “abruptly and arbitrarily” terminate $11 billion in federal funds for Covid and other public health projects.
“This funding provides essential support for a wide range of urgent public health needs such as identifying, tracking, and addressing infectious diseases; ensuring access to immunizations; fortifying emergency preparedness; providing mental health and substance abuse services; and modernizing critical public health infrastructure,” the suit read.
The states claimed that it was illegal to cut the funding, and “without these federal funds, the modernized systems face risks including delays in care and in reporting and identifying outbreaks, which could exacerbate the spread of disease and puts at risk California’s preparedness for future pandemics.”
Trump urged his supporters in a series of Truth Social posts to vote for his preferred candidates in today’s elections in Wisconsin and Florida.
In the Wisconsin state Supreme Court race, Trump boosted conservative candidate Brad Schimel, the former state attorney general, writing that Schimel is an “America First Patriot.” Trump also encouraged Wisconsin voters to support a ballot measure that would enshrine the state’s voter ID law into the state Constitution.
Trump urged his supporters in Florida to head the polls in the 1st and 6th Congressional Districts, which are hosting special elections to replace former GOP Reps. Matt Gaetz and Mike Waltz, who is now Trump’s national security adviser. Trump easily won both districts in November, but the races are expected to be decided by closer margins given lower turnout and Democratic energy.
“Jimmy has been a wonderful friend to me, and to MAGA,” Trump wrote of Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis, the GOP candidate in the 1st District.
Trump also boosted GOP state Sen. Randy Fine in the 6th District, writing that Fine “has been a tremendous Voice for MAGA.”
Plaintiffs challenging Trump’s unprecedented invocation of a wartime law called the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged gang members to a prison in El Salvador without due process have urged the Supreme Court not to grant the government’s emergency request to allow the deportations to resume.
In a new filing, lawyers for the deportees, who the administration alleges are gang members, highlighted the impact of any decision to grant Trump almost unfettered power to immediately deport people the government has associated with the Tren de Aragua gang.
Lower courts ruled against the government.
“The implications of the government’s interpretation and execution of the AEA are staggering,” the lawyers wrote. If the court were to rule for the government, it would “allow the government to immediately begin whisking away anyone else it unilaterally declares to be a member of a criminal gang to a brutal foreign prison,” they added.
The court could act on the Trump request as soon as this week.
The Agriculture Department is giving employees until next week to decide whether to participate in the administration’s so-called deferred resignation program, according to two current USDA staffers who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
USDA employees were sent an email last night titled “Deferred Resignation Program 2.0,” which says they must make a decision by April 8, the staff members said.
A federal judge ended a temporary pause in the program in February, at which point about 75,000 federal employees had accepted the White House’s buyout offers, according to the Office of Personnel Management. That number was less than the administration had expected and lower than the annual attrition rate for federal workers in fiscal year 2023.
The Senate Finance Committee is expected to vote today to advance Frank Bisignano’s nomination to be commissioner of the Social Security Administration to the full Senate.
The committee could advance the nomination during its 10 a.m. ET business meeting, but if the panel doesn’t have a quorum, members will vote this afternoon off the floor.
Democrats grilled Bisignano at his confirmation hearing last week about his plans for the agency, whether he agrees with Elon Musk’s attacks on the program and on their concerns that benefits could be cut.
Musk and other senior members of the Trump administration have been critical of the program. Earlier this month, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said “fraudsters” would have a problem with a missing Social Security check, but not his mother-in-law.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will visit Capitol Hill this afternoon for a meet-and-greet session with House Republicans, according to Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., chair of the House GOP Conference, as Trump seeks to implement new tariffs and quickly pass his policy agenda.
Bessent’s timely visit, first reported by NBC News, is the latest in a string of meetings between House Republicans and key Trump administration officials called the “Meet the Cabinet” series, which McClain recently started orchestrating on Capitol Hill. In her leadership position, McClain is in charge of the House GOP’s messaging arm, as well as member services.
The United States government accidentally deported a man to El Salvador because of an “administrative error,” landing him in a notorious mega-jail and leaving him stuck there in legal limbo, according to legal papers filed yesterday.
Kilmar Arbrego Garcia came to the U.S. in 2011 from El Salvador and is a legal resident protected by a 2019 court order that prevented him from being sent back to his home country.
The conviction of French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, which bars her from holding public office for five years, is “a very big deal,” Trump said.
Le Pen, leader of the National Rally party and one of the best-known figures in far-right European politics, was found guilty in Paris yesterday of embezzling European Union funds and sentenced to four years in prison. She had been considered a front-runner in France’s 2027 presidential election, campaigning in part on anti-immigration and other policies that have drawn comparisons to Trump.
“That’s a big deal. That’s a very big deal,” Trump said from the Oval Office yesterday evening. “I know all about it, and a lot of people thought she wasn’t going to be convicted of anything.”
“But she was banned for running for five years, and she’s the leading candidate. That sounds like this country, that sounds very much like this country,” Trump continued, in an apparent reference to the multiple legal cases he faced before returning to office.
Le Pen’s lawyer said she would appeal the verdict, though she will remain ineligible for office in the meantime.
Layoffs began widely this morning at the Department of Health and Human Services as the agency sets out to cut some 10,000 full-time jobs as the Trump administration works to drastically shrink the size of the federal government.
The “reduction in force” plan, announced last Thursday and led by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, aims to shrink the health department’s workforce from 82,000 to 62,000 across several of its agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health.
As morning alarms roused people on the East Coast for their work days, Sen. Cory Booker still hadn’t returned home from the night before. Instead, he was delivering an hourslong overnight speech on the Senate floor, which was ongoing 12 hours later this morning.
Booker showed no signs of slowing down after 7 a.m., speaking with animated gestures as he slammed the Trump administration.
Reporting from Mainz, Germany
The European Union has a “strong plan” to retaliate against U.S. tariffs if necessary, the E.U. chief warned, as Trump is poised to impose a 25% auto tariff in addition to reciprocal tariffs on countries around the world.
The 27-member bloc is willing to negotiate but is also prepared to protect its interests, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said today in a speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
“We do not necessarily want to retaliate, but we have a strong plan to retaliate if necessary,” she said.
Von der Leyen said she understood American complaints that “others have taken advantage of the rules.”
“I agree. We also suffer from it. So let us work on it,” she said. “But tariffs across the board make things worse, not better.”
While Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race is officially nonpartisan, Democrats and Republicans have both picked sides and are pouring fortunes into their efforts. As the votes are tallied tonight, the ability to claim political momentum amid the upheaval of President Donald Trump’s second term will be on the line.
What is being tested, though, is not so much whether large numbers of voters have changed their minds in the five months since the presidential election. When it comes to Trump himself, Wisconsin is an especially polarized state, with three straight presidential elections decided by less than 1 point. More likely, the outcome hinges on whether the pro-Trump side has become more engaged in an election like this than it has been up to this point.
The first major elections of President Donald Trump’s second term will take place today as voters head to the polls in Wisconsin, a perennial battleground, and in Trump-friendly territory in Florida.
Tens of millions of dollars have poured into Wisconsin ahead of today’s state Supreme Court race in a contest that could have huge national implications. It’s the first major statewide contest in a battleground since the 2024 election — and it’s happening in the state where Trump had his narrowest margin of victory in November.
