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Secretary of Education Linda McMahon stormed off without answering questions after Democrats confronted her outside the department's headquarters.

During a press conference outside the department on Wednesday, Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) yielded the microphone to McMahon after she unexpectedly appeared at the event where Democrats were opposing her mission to dismantle the agency.

Former Rep. Max Rose (D-N.Y.) thinks that if billionaires can't influence elections with their money then they're "really, really screwed."

"The takeaway is very simple," Rose told MSNBC's Ana Cabrera on Wednesday. "Democrats had a very motivated base. The MAGA base was highly depressed, and the majority of independents and persuadables went to Democrats. This, despite Elon Musk and his fellow billionaires continuing to pour tens of millions of dollars into this race."

Newsmax judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano expressed shock after a judge dismissed charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams (D) and said the bribery case could not be brought again.

In dismissing the case with prejudice on Wednesday, Judge Dale Ho said that Attorney General Pam Bondi could not use the charges as leverage against Adams by threatening to reinstate the case if he does not cooperate on President Donald Trump's immigration agenda.

President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs are set to snap into place Wednesday – which he calls "Liberation Day" – but one of his former aides warned those could sink his popularity.

The president is due to announce his tariff plan in a Rose Garden address, which has set investors on edge, and his former White House aide Alyssa Farah Griffin told "CNN News Central" that even Trump's base understood that tariffs on imports would result in higher costs for consumers.

The loss of a candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court who had the full backing of billionaire Elon Musk is being greeted gleefully by more than a handful of Republican lawmakers, according to one former U.S. senator.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," ex-Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) claimed Musk is generally loathed by Republicans within the Beltway and, seeing him take a big loss after sinking an estimated $26 million into the campaign of Brad Schimel is cheering some conservatives.

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The inability of billionaire Elon Musk to win a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat for conservatives despite dumping an estimated $26 million into the race had the hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" reveling in his humiliation on Wednesday morning.

Late Tuesday liberal judge Susan Crawford defeated far right conservative judicial candidate Brad Schimel by over 200,000 votes in what the New York Times is calling a "stinging rebuke" to both Musk and Donald Trump.

With that in mind, and after Musk put so much work into getting his candidate across the finish line only to fall way short, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough compared the loss to Musk's recent SpaceX rocket failures.

"Didn't Elon Musk say just a couple of days ago that western civilization would rise or fall with this election if Democrats didn't lose? "Scarborough wryly noted."

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"He said humanity's destiny rises, rides on that particular seat," co-host Jonathan Lemire contributed. "So grand stakes he was clearly willing to go all in, make this a –– and they lost. "

"Okay, I mean it's hard to understate what a massive victory this was for him and what a massive loss it was for Elon Musk, " Scarborough replied. "I mean, Elon Musk put himself front and center and I think it's safe to say after last night in Wisconsin, the heat shield has melted; it did not hold together coming back into earth's atmosphere and, man, again just think: Wisconsin media-wise, it's a small state. He spent tens of millions of his own dollars handing out million dollar checks. I mean, they went all in on this race and lost big, double digits, lost by ten points in a race that was decided by less than one point in November."

Democrats applauded an "important win" on CNN as progressive judge Susan Crawford sailed to victory late Tuesday in Wisconsin's much-anticipated State Supreme Court race, defeating Elon Musk-backed conservative Brad Schimel.

Ashley Allison, a prominent political strategist who held key roles in both the Obama and Biden administrations, called Crawford's victory an "important win for Democrats in Wisconsin," but warned Democrats not to read too much into the result."

Progressive judge Susan Crawford took a victory lap Tuesday night after being projected the winner of the hotly contested Wisconsin Supreme Court race that made her a political target for tech billionaire Elon Musk.

“I’ve got to tell you, as a little girl growing up in Chippewa Falls, I never could have imagined that I’d be taking on the richest man in the world,” she said to laughter and applause from the crowd. “…for justice in Wisconsin. And we won!”

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said Tuesday night that it wasn’t until the 15th hour of his record-breaking marathon speech that he realized he could beat the record for the longest Senate floor speech.

“I really, at that point, felt like I could do it,” Booker said. "I felt I could do it, and, I will tell you the reality is that I really felt the energy of a lot of folks… so I’m just grateful right now, despite the fact that I’m in rough shape."

The head of Wisconsin Democrats touted what he called "explosive" turnout from his party on Tuesday in the widely watched race for Wisconsin Supreme Court.

On the ballot in the state are the Wisconsin Supreme Court and State Superintendent of Public Instruction:

Pro-Trump tech billionaire Elon Musk vowed on Fox News that the Trump administration is going to take down people organizing violent demonstrations against his Tesla dealerships as criminal racketeering enterprises, implying that these attacks have been worse for the country than the Jan. 6 attacks that sought to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

"It is remarkable that there is so much violence," said Musk. "People have burnt cars, they fired bullets into dealerships, they've scratched swastikas into Teslas of the innocent people that have — they're just going about their lives they've done nothing wrong, and Tesla has done nothing wrong as a company."