NPR News: 04-02-2025 8AM EDT

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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. A pair of Republicans in Florida won special congressional elections yesterday. Jimmy Petronas and Randy Fine will help keep the GOP's majority in the House. Randy Fine's margin of victory was 14 points, but that's far smaller than his GOP predecessor, who won by a margin of 33 points. Fine is brushing off the difference.

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It's a special election. You have to look at the turnout. I mean, there were twice as many people that voted. I don't think you can read much into it. We won by double digits. We're super excited. It was an incredibly powerful victory.

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But Democrats take a different view. They say it suggests that some congressional districts may be more competitive than thought. In another closely watched nonpartisan election, a liberal candidate won election to Wisconsin Supreme Court. Susan Crawford won comfortably. Billionaire Elon Musk had poured millions of his own money into the race to support her conservative opponent. Musk is also pointing to a measure Wisconsin voters passed to enshrine voter ID requirements into the state constitution. The US Supreme Court hears arguments today in a case testing whether states can remove Planned Parenthood clinics from state Medicaid programs. NPR's Nina Totenberg says Medicaid funds cannot generally be used to fund abortions.

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In 2018, South Carolina's Republican governor