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Ben Wikler: “I think a Democratic primary debate is a pretty different…”

Featuring: Ben Wikler, Democratic | Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin

The Future of the Democratic Party! Ben Wikler Shares His Vision & Why He's Running for DNC Chair

Published December 3, 2024 | Video Starts at 19:23

… were not going to allow Fox News to host a debate because they felt the platform was just unambiguously critical and almost propaganda ish towards Democrats. Was that a mistake? I think a Democratic primary debate is a pretty different beast than a general election. So I don't think that if you're a Fox News host, your goal with the Democratic primary debate is to generate the most damaging possible clips of the candidates. (19:23–19:29)

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“This was an anti incumbent wave year. Around the world, parties left, right and center lost vote share.”
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“Those [pandemic era support] programs went away and prices went up.”
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“Trump next year will have the power to give trillions of dollars to his billionaire friends and potentially cut healthcare for working…”
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“In Wisconsin, we added votes for Harris relative to Biden.”
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“We increased Democratic votes, raw votes, not the margin, but we increased the raw votes in 46 of the 72 counties.”
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“We actually increased the vote share in the suburbs around Milwaukee.”
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“That increased turnout for Democrats allowed us to win our state, our U.S. senate race and 14 state legislative districts that flipped from…”
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“We have new maps. So we actually have competitive state legislative seats and we won a whole bunch of them.”
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“This year, unlike 16 and 24 different Democrats won Senate seats in states that Trump won simultaneously.”
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“Where Trump and Harris both campaigned the most, Democrats did better than in places where neither campaigned.”
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“If the child tax credit had sustained all the way through and Republicans were running on repealing it, then we would have what happened…”
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“When [Democrats] win a trifecta in states, you get stuff like what Governor Walz did, making sure everyone has food when they go to school.”
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“If you look at the chart of disposable income that happened for folks in the bottom 50% of the income distribution, it went up sharply…”
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“Stephen Semmler is a social scientist who's compiled this data.”
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“Ads about abortion were the most powerful [in state legislative races].”
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“In a red wave year, we absolutely would have lost [50, 50 districts]... and it did work.”
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“The core values and the policies that Democrats propose are generally quite popular.”
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“People's perception of what Democrats want is wildly unpopular.”
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“Republicans now have 87% of the legislature [in Idaho].”
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“Democrats in the state legislature have provided the winning margin of votes on a series of bills where the GOP has divided.”
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“Democrats have been able to prevent the voucherization of the whole public school system.”
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“Democrats have been able to... pass through $80 million a year in scholarships to go to the state university system.”
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“Democrats do prioritize economics, especially in battleground state Democratic campaigns and in red state Democratic campaigns.”
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“Republicans spent, I don't know what the total number will be, let's call it a billion dollars to run ads saying Kamala Harris cares about…”
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“Republicans trying to shred funding for public schools so that they can give tax cuts to folks, and Democrats fighting back against that.”
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“There's a graph that I think about a lot that shows that Republicans don't agree on economic issues, but they agree on cultural issues, and…”
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“If you are ready and have the skills to be able to, you know, to go for it, then going and bringing the conversation back to your core…”
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“The Trump administration is wildly corrupt.”
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“Trump's plans are just going to be terrible for working people and really good for the very richest people.”
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“Trump's old tax cuts are going to expire.”
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“We don't yet know whether [Republicans are] going to take dead direct aim at cutting healthcare in order to fund tax cuts for billionaires.”
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“They're going to try to do a massive shift of resources away from most Americans into the hands of the ultra wealthy.”
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“When Democrats campaign against [resource shifts to the wealthy], it is incredibly popular.”
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“When Republicans do [resource shifts to the wealthy], it is unpopular.”
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“We saw this movie in 2017 when they went after healthcare and then they passed this massive tax cut for the ultra rich.”
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