Democrats Demoralized By Trump Get A Boost From Wisconsin Voters And Cory Booker's Speech

For a day, at least, Democrats across the country have a sense that their comeback against President Donald Trump may have begun.

It wasn't just about the election results in Wisconsin, where Democratic-backed Judge Susan Crawford won a 10-point victory against Trump and Elon Musk's favored candidate for the state Supreme Court.

Some Democrats highlighted New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker's marathon, record-setting 25-hour Senate speech as a rallying point for frustrated voters. Others pointed to congressional Democrats lining up with a handful of House Republican lawmakers to oppose a procedural rule that would have stopped a proposal for new parents in Congress to able to vote by proxy .

The series of victories gave Democratic leaders moments of relief and vindication of their strategy to focus on Trump's alliances with Musk and other billionaires. That's even as some party officials warned that it was far too early to draw sweeping conclusions from a series of lower-turnout off-year elections with polls still showing that the party's brand is deeply unpopular among key groups of voters.

"Elon Musk and Donald Trump are on the ropes," charged Ken Martin, the newly elected chair of the Democratic National Committee. "We're just getting started."