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WI Supreme Court race: MAGA extremist candidate Dan Kelly has taken a chilling turn to the fringe. [1]

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Date: 2023-03-28

SEVEN DAYS: The stakes in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race keep rising. Dan Kelly, the MAGA extremist candidate, has taken a chilling turn to the fringe.

Read on—and then chip in to help us defeat him.

Last week, Dan Kelly spoke at an event where the preceding speaker was an ultra-extremist who had previously argued that murdering abortion providers is “justifiable homicide”—Matthew Trewhella. Trewhalla was investigated by the FBI for possible links to an actual murder of an abortion provider.

x Dan Kelly received endorsements from both pro-gun and anti-abortion groups, with his latest appearance in a video conference alongside Pastor Matthew Trewhella, who the FBI investigated in connection to the fatal shooting of an abortion doctor in 1994. https://t.co/7eH95RZogJ — Steve Schuster (@journoschu) March 23, 2023

Then, a national anti-abortion group announced it would plow $2 million into supporting Dan Kelly in these final days.

Meanwhile, Dan Kelly has openly embraced the support of a January 6 insurrectionist, election denier, and conspiracy theorist—Scott Presler—who is crisscrossing the state turning out GOP voters for Kelly.

Presler has a long history of right-wing extremism, having previously worked as an “activism strategist” for a radical anti-Muslim hate group.

In recent years, Presler has regularly promoted election misinformation and organized several “stop the steal” rallies in the weeks before the January 6 attack—which Presler himself attended. Now, Presler and Kelly have recorded a video together.

x We're coming down to the final days of this race and with your help, we're taking the fight to Janet! Voters now see her for who she is - a politician in a robe. @ScottPresler is traveling Wisconsin with us and for us to spread our message, but we need your help! - Team Kelly pic.twitter.com/8jo2SJuZpJ — Justice Daniel Kelly (@JusticeDanKelly) March 22, 2023

Kelly told the Associated Press he was not concerned that Presler had been on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol on January 6 and his support had been “invaluable.”

Dan Kelly’s proximity to the dangerous far-right fringe reveals his values. He’d be a disaster for Wisconsin on the Supreme Court.

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