Voters Will Offer an Early Assessment of Trump and Musk

In Wisconsin and Florida, voters went to the polls today for elections that will offer the best evidence yet of whether President Trump maintains robust support.

In Florida, two Republicans are expected to win special elections for deep-red House seats. But Democrats have been able to feed on their voters’ fury to make at least one of the races closer than expected. We’re tracking each party’s turnout in the state, and you can see the results here as they come in.

In Wisconsin, Republicans wanted today’s State Supreme Court election to be all about Trump, our politics reporter Reid Epstein told me. The president won the state in November and the conservative candidate, Brad Schimel, has been doing everything he can to associate with Trump, including wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat.

“He is doing everything short of standing up and yelling: Trump, Trump, Trump,” said Reid, who reported today from Madison, the state’s capital. “On the other hand, Democrats are standing up yelling: Musk, Musk, Musk.”

That’s because, as Reid described to me, Elon Musk has become the central player in the Wisconsin contest. Musk and groups tied to him have poured more than $25 million into what is the most expensive judicial election in American history.

Polling suggests Musk has less residual popularity among Republicans than Trump, and Democrats have urged voters to support the liberal candidate, Susan Crawford, as a way to push back against the billionaire and his effort to dismantle the federal bureaucracy. Turnout in the race is expected to be strong. We will update this page when we get results.

For more: Democrats are likely to be buoyed by their results today and in many elections over the next few years, our chief political analyst Nate Cohn explained. But that doesn’t mean that their problems are solved.

Cory Booker slams Trump for 23 hours and counting

Last night, Cory Booker, the New Jersey senator, went to a lectern on the Senate floor and started delivering a speech filled with sharp criticisms of Trump. Nearly 24 hours later, Booker is still speaking.

He is not blocking any nominees or legislation. But with some help from his Democratic colleagues, Booker’s speech is now one of the longest in Senate history, and a clear attempt to prove that Democrats can still assertively oppose the president.

Related: Democratic voters told our reporters that they are looking for a fighter.

In other politics news:

Prosecutors plan to pursue the death penalty for Luigi Mangione

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced today that she would seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, who was charged with murdering the health insurance executive Brian Thompson in front of a hotel in midtown Manhattan in December. Mangione, who is 26, has pleaded not guilty.

The decision followed an executive order by Trump directing the Justice Department to renew death penalty requests after former President Joe Biden declared a moratorium on capital punishment for most federal offenders in 2021.

U.N. said Israel killed rescue workers, a rare accusation

A week after 15 rescue workers died during an evacuation mission in Gaza, the U.N. said that Israel had killed them and dumped most of the bodies in a mass grave. It was a rare accusation from the organization, which is typically cautious about assigning blame.

An Israeli military official said that nine of those killed were Palestinian militants, including an operative who participated in the Oct. 7 attacks, and that the emergency vehicles they were in were “advancing suspiciously.” U.N. officials said the workers were in vehicles clearly marked as rescue vehicles.

The enigmatic ‘goddess’ of the piano

Martha Argerich is one of the world’s most astonishing pianists. She has the finger strength to shatter chestnuts, and at 83, she is at the peak of her powers. Just don’t ask her about it: Argerich is notoriously private.

It took all of our reporter’s cajoling powers to earn her trust. When she eventually talked, Argerich could be entrancing. She spoke of her kinship with dead composers and she acknowledged that she often doubted her abilities. Read the profile and listen to her play.

Natty or not?

The fitness influencer Kenny Boulet has amassed a following by approaching especially muscular gymgoers and asking them whether they use performance-enhancing drugs, like steroids. Boulet’s goal, he said, is to get people to be more honest about their drug use, which has long been a taboo subject. “No one wants to be deceived, especially by people they look up to, whether that’s on social media or in Hollywood,” he said.

I’ll take the steak and two spins around the restaurant

Revolving restaurants are novelties from the 1960s and ’70s, when skylines were climbing ever higher and architects wanted to give people a front seat to the rapid development. It was an expensive gimmick; most of the restaurants either shut down or stopped spinning.

But what goes around tends to come back around: Several rotating restaurants are now back up and spinning, including one on the 47th and 48th floors of the New York Marriott Marquis — where you can sip Champagne and take in the view during a full rotation, every 45 minutes.

Have a panoramic evening.

Thanks for reading. I’ll be back tomorrow. — Matthew

Philip Pacheco was our photo editor today.

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