Musk Announces 1 Million For Wisconsin Voter In Supreme Court Race. Opposition Calls It 'corrupt'

Billionaire Elon Musk says a Wisconsin voter has been awarded 1 million days before the conclusion of a fiercely contested state Supreme Court election that has broken spending records and become a referendum on Musk and the first months of President Donald Trump's administration.

The payment to a Green Bay man, which Musk announced Wednesday night on his social media platform X, is similar to a lottery that Musk's political action committee ran last year in Wisconsin and other battleground states before the presidential election in November.

The upcoming election on Tuesday, filing a seat held by a liberal justice who is retiring, will determine whether Wisconsin's highest court will remain under 4-3 liberal control or flip to a conservative majority. The race has become a proxy battle over the nation's politics, with Trump and Musk getting behind Brad Schimel, the Republican-backed candidate in the officially nonpartisan contest.

The campaign for the Democratic-supported candidate, Susan Crawford, blasted the 1 million payment from Musk as an attempt to illegally buy influence on the court in a state where Tesla, his electric car company, has a lawsuit pending that could end up before the court.

"It's corrupt, it's extreme, and it's disgraceful to our state and judiciary," Crawford spokesperson Derrick Honeyman said in a statement.