Susan Crawford is out with a new ad that charges billionaire Elon Musk is trying to buy a seat on the Supreme Court for conservative rival Brad Schimel.
According to AdImpact, Crawford is now up to $22.7 million in reservations for the campaign. That includes $8.3 million over the final two weeks.
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Crawford’s new spot — her 20th of the campaign — is her first to mention Musk. Groups aligned with the billionaire have now spent more than $14.5 million to boost Schimel.
The narrator in the ad counts the ways Schimel is “corrupt.”
The narrator says he gave a plea deal to a man caught with child porn after a donation from his lawyer, lied about letting 6,000 rape kits sit untested for years and now Musk is trying to buy him a seat on the court because “he knows Schimel always helps his big campaign donors.”
The narrator closes the ad, “That’s Brad Schimel, and he’s way too corrupt for the Supreme Court.”
