MILWAUKEE — With hundreds of thousands of votes cast already and hundreds of thousands more Wisconsinites set to head to the polls Tuesday, Wisconsin’s state supreme court race—a race Elon Musk referred to Sunday as a race that could determine the “future of civilization”—is in the national spotlight.

“This is the first big election after the November, 2024 election,” said Professor Henrik Schatzinger, the chair of the political science department at Ripon College. “Therefore, the nation is looking at Wisconsin.”

In part because of that national attention, fundraising for both candidates—conservative-supported Judge Brad Schimel and liberal-supported Judge Susan Crawford—has shattered all previous judicial race records, with WisPolitics Monday reporting that overall spending on the race now tops $104 million and counting.

“It’s a mix of issues and those issues include the referendum on the Trump administration and some people say on Elon Musk,” Professor Schatzinger said. “Then you have [the future of abortion], then you have other issues—so I think it’s really a mix of issues.”

Watch the full interview above.