Schimel, the state’s former Republican attorney general, is embracing politics in ways the last conservative who ran for the court did not. He’s accepting money from the state Republican Party, getting help from Elon Musk and has presented the stakes of the race in more than just legal terms, framing it as part of a battle between good and evil.

Supreme Court candidates Brad Schimel and Susan Crawford squared off in a sometimes testy debate less than three weeks before the election.