The Republican insiders selected the person to run for the the Supreme Court - no primary and every one was told to back off.
In addition the Republican Madison based group in charge of the campaign - Champion - ran a lousy campaign and lost the election for the judge. They are running part of Leah Vukmir’s campaign for US Senate.
For example they allowed the liberal Milwaukee candidate to claim in ads that Michael Stroeck was the liberal soft on crime judge. They never mentioned that the liberal candidate was from Milwaukee.
“They are running part of Leah Vukmir’s campaign for US Senate.”
Leah would be superb. This is downright terrifying.