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Wisconsin US Senator Tammy Baldwin laughs off Elon Musk
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Wisconsin US Senator Tammy Baldwin laughs off Elon Musk

Sen. Tammy Baldwin — (4-2-2025)
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Photo: Matt Laslo

Who?

Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)

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Ask a Pol asks:

What do you make of your Republican colleagues laughing Musk off, saying ‘he has nothing to do with our party’?

Key Baldwin:

“I think Elon Musk wearing a cheesehead in Green Bay on Sunday kind of flips that on its head,” Sen. Baldwin exclusively tells Ask a Pol.

ICYMI — Rep. Bera blasts Musk

Caught our ear:

“$27 million, I think, is how much he spent trying to influence the outcome of this race,” Baldwin tells us. “The voters gave a direct repudiation of that.”

Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), slightly edited for clarity.

TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Tammy Baldwin

SCENE: As Sen. Tammy Baldwin makes her way through a sea of reporters the day after the Wisconsin election Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo is the first to greet her as she exits the underground Senate tram and makes her way to a bank of elevators underneath the US Senate.

Tammy Baldwin: “$27 million, I think, is how much he spent a throughline to influence the outcome of this race…”

Custodians come through with a heavy and loud cart.

TB: “…that’s quite something, and I think the voters gave a direct repudiation of that.”

Matt Laslo: “What do you make of your Republican colleagues laughing Musk off, saying ‘he has nothing to do with our party’?”

TB: “I think Elon Musk wearing a cheesehead in Green Bay on Sunday kind of flips that on its head.”

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ML: “Right? Yes ma’am.”

Baldwin entes an elevator.

ML: “Go Bears!”

TB: “What?!!!”

Everyone laughs as elevator doors close.

ML: “So sorry ma’am.”

Reporter: “Had to slip that in.”

Laslo laughs.

ML: “Just got in her doghouse.”

Everyone laughs.

Nicolae Viorel Butler contributed to this report.

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