Tuesday was quite the day in American politics. Former President Donald Trump was arraigned in Manhattan and pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. It was also election day in one of the nation's purplest states and its third largest city. In Wisconsin, voters chose liberal state Supreme Court nominee Janet Protasiewicz by double digits, overturning the court's ideological bias. And in Chicago, voters chose progressive Brandon Johnson as their next mayor in a very close race, ultimately rejecting the tough-on-crime alternative. The crew covers it all in this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast.
