The former star marshal of the Green Bay Packers, Brett Favre, showed his support behind Brad Schimel in the race for the Supreme Court of Wisconsin.
Favre urged Wisconsin residents to vote for the judge on April 1.
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The field marshal of the Hall of Fame, Brett Favre, heats up before the game between the Miss Golden Eagles del Sur and the Louisiana Monroe Warhawks in the MM Roberts Stadium in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on September 8, 2018. (Chuck Cook-USA Today Sports)
“Wisconsin’s future is at stake here,” said Favre. “This is as important as the November elections, and that was for the soul of America. This is for Wisconsin’s soul.
“His vote for Brad Schimel will keep Wisconsin and America winning. And you know that I know a little about winning. When people like you vote, America and Wisconsin win.”
Favre supported Donald Trump for president during the 2024 campaign cycle. He also spoke in a demonstration for Trump when the Republican celebrated a demonstration in the state.
Schimel is a former Wisconsin attorney general and currently serves as a judge in Waukesha County. Republicans have warned that Schimel’s opponent, Susan Crawford, from Dane County, a liberal considered the preferred candidate of Democrats, could support efforts to “extract” two Republicans from the US House of Representatives. UU. In future redistribution maps of districts.
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The candidates of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, Brad Schimel and Susan Crawford, before a televised debate on March 12, 2025 in Milwaukee. (Photo AP/MORRY GASH)
Republicans have described Crawford as “dangerously liberal”, citing the support of billionaire George Soros, the governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, as well as activist groups that support gender transition surgeries for minors and allow biological men to compete in women’s sports.
A source familiar with the career warned of Crawford’s candidacy as part of an ongoing “radical” change in Wisconsin, both with the equally controversial election of the liberal judge Janet Protasiewicz in 2023 and the movement of Governor Tony Evers to replace the “mother” in the state budget of the times with the “inseminated person.”
The Republicans also accused Crawford of pointing out the will to “legislate from the bank”, citing their past role in challenging the State’s voter identification law and their appearance in an January event organized by a group of liberal donors with the aim of unraveling representatives Bryan Steil of Janesville and Derrick Van or Dden of Prairie du Chien.
Brad Schimel, Wisconsin Attorney General, speaks during a campaign rally at Weldall Manufacturing in Waukesha on November 5, 2018. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg through Getty Images)
Trump supported Schimel in a publication about Truth Social on Sunday.
