Democrats get a boost from Wisconsin voters, Cory Booker’s speech

By Steve Peoples, Associated Press

New York (AP) – For a day, at least, Democrats across the country feel that their return against President Donald Trump may have started.

It was not only the results of the elections in the Wisconsin, where the judge supported by Democrat Susan Crawford won a 10 -point victory against Elon Musk’s favorite candidate for the Supreme State Court.

Some Democrats have highlighted the New Jersey senator marathon, Cory Booker, the Senate of the Record Senate of 25 Hours as a rallying point for frustrated voters. Others have stressed that the Democrats of the Congress queue with a handful of republican legislators in the Chamber to oppose a rule of procedure which would have arrested a proposal for new parents in the congress to be able to vote by proxy.

The victories series has given democratic leaders moments of relief and justification of their strategy to focus on Trump’s alliances with Musk and other billionaires. It is even that some party officials warned that it was far too early to draw radical conclusions from a series of lower -year -old yield elections with polls always showing that the party brand is deeply unpopular among the main groups of voters.

“Elon Musk and Donald Trump are on the strings,” accused Ken Martin, the newly elected president of the National Democratic Committee. “We are just starting.”

Wisconsin gave the Democrats a very necessary victory

Democrats did not have much to encourage within five months of a decisive victory in the November presidential election during which he took off a large part of the voters of the working class and people of color. And in recent weeks, the party militant base has become more and more frustrated that Democratic leaders have not done more to stop Trump’s unprecedented push to reduce the federal government and reshape the economy.

The Democrats of Washington and in state capitals across the country have conceded in private that a bad night, especially in Wisconsin, would have been devastating.

Brad Schimel, the conservative candidate for the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, lost against Crawford supported by Liberal in a relative eruption, five months after Trump transported the Wisconsin from less than one point.

And in Florida, the Republicans have won special elections in two of the country’s most pro-Trump house districts, but the two candidates have considerably underperformed the November Trump margins.

“I went to bed last night by feeling built and relieved,” said the president of the Kansas Democratic Party on Wednesday, Jeanna Fass.

Representative Mark Pocan, D-Wis., Predicted new political consequences for the Republicans if they do not resist the radical cuts to government services adopted by Musk and Trump.

“In swing districts, if I was a republican, I would decide how to defend your voters or discover how to get a discount on adults depends, because one or the other is what you will need to do,” said Pocan.

Rebecca Cooke, a democratic candidate in the 3rd district of the Wisconsin Congress, said that the elections clearly indicated that voters are upset by the way Trump and Musk “spoiled their lives”. But she stopped projecting confidence in future elections.

“We have work to do to build long -term infrastructure in this party and to really strengthen confidence with voters who, I think, have been left behind by the Democratic Party,” said Cooke, a 37 -year -old waitress who presents himself against the GOP representative. Derrick Van Orden. “I think it takes time to establish confidence with voters, and that cannot happen overnight, and that cannot happen in a single election.”

Do you expect more democratic discussion points of Musk

In this week’s successes, Democratic officials believe they have confirmed the effectiveness of their main message before the mid-terrain of 2026 that Trump and his billionaire allies work for the rich to the detriment of the working class.

Indeed, the discussion points distributed by the National Democratic Committee strengthened this notion on Wednesday while indicating what the Committee described as “an undeniable trend” after recent democratic victories with lower profile in Virginia, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Louisiana and Minnesota.

“In 2025, the Democrats continue to outperform the special elections while voters send a resounding message: they want the Democrats to fight for them, and they want the Trump-Musk Agenda to be out of their communities,” said discussion points.

Representative Suzan Delbene, D-Wash., Told the AP on Wednesday that election results showed that the public was “indignant” by chaos and dysfunction from the Trump administration. The chairman of the Congress Democratic Campaign Committee said Trump and the Republicans in Congress fail to set high prices and seek Medicaid cuts, in addition to supporting the prices that could worsen inflation for families.

“What we saw yesterday in Florida and Wisconsin is that the Republicans who were running frightened because the American people are angry and frightened by the management that the Trump-Musk agenda takes us,” she said. “They see prices increase. They see more and more that the accent is not on them, but on Trump and his rich donors.”

No more protests are coming

On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of voters are expected to attend more than 1,000 so-called “hands!” Related protests at the national level focused on Trump and Musk. More than 150 political groups have worked together to organize what will almost certainly represent the biggest protest day in the second Trump administration.

The Washington event, which will showcase representatives Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., And Jamie Raskin, D-MD., Already includes more than 12,000 RSVP, according to the organizers.

Meanwhile, Booker plans to attend a series of independent public events, including a New Jersey town hall this weekend.

His office reports to receive 28,000 voice messages since he finished his speech shortly after 8 p.m. Tuesday. At its peak, the address of 25 hours was broadcast by more than 300,000 people on Booker’s social networks. He won more than 350 million likes on his newly formed Tiktok account.

A spokesperson said the Democratic senator had spent a large part of Wednesday sleeping.

The editors of the Associated Press Josh Boak and Leah Askarinam in Washington and Scott Bauer in Madison, the Wisconsin contributed to the reports.

Originally published: April 2, 2025 at 3:07 p.m.