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Ben Wikler: “In 2018, we had a blowout victory in a state Supreme Court…”

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

60: Building a Unified Operation for Success with Ben Wikler | Jen Rubin's Green Room

Published July 3, 2024 | Video Starts at 19:54

So that started to change in 2018. And in 2018, I'm not the author of that success. I was a volunteer watching and marveling at this operation. But In 2018, we had a blowout victory in a state Supreme Court race. Rebecca Dallett won that race. And then as we went into the fall for the first time since 1982, Democrats swept every single statewide election. Now, they didn't win by much. (19:54–20:01)

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Asserts Rebecca Dallett's victory in a Wisconsin state Supreme Court race in 2018.

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“I decided to run for chair because I saw this neighbor to neighbor organizing program all over the state that was started by my predecessor…”
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“Some [polls] find that Biden has a huge advantage with young people. Some find that he's slipped.”
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“He [Trump] posted on Truth Social that he once reposted someone else's call for televised military tribunals for Liz Cheney.”
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“Republicans had a 5:2 majority on our state Supreme Court [in March 2018].”
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“Fair maps were nowhere in sight [in March 2018].”
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“Ron Johnson was our senator [in March 2018].”
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“Republicans had five of the eight congressional seats [in March 2018].”
60: Building a Unified Operation for Success with Ben Wikler | Jen Rubin's Green Room | Uploaded July 3, 2024 | 19:22-19:27
“Trump had just won [in March 2018].”
60: Building a Unified Operation for Success with Ben Wikler | Jen Rubin's Green Room | Uploaded July 3, 2024 | 19:22-19:27
“The governor won by 1.1 percentage point [in 2018].”
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“Wisconsin is rigged still for Republican control.”
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“We have the biggest decline in union density of any state in the country this century because of Scott Walker's union busting.”
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“We're the fourth hardest state to vote in the country, according to a 20 study.”
60: Building a Unified Operation for Success with Ben Wikler | Jen Rubin's Green Room | Uploaded July 3, 2024 | 20:25-20:30
“The second hardest state to register to vote.”
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“Republicans had near total control of the state legislature [in March 2018].”
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“Republicans had the governorship, the attorney general's office, the state treasurer [in March 2018].”
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“In 2018, Democrats swept every single statewide election.”
60: Building a Unified Operation for Success with Ben Wikler | Jen Rubin's Green Room | Uploaded July 3, 2024 | 20:37-20:49
“Republicans held a lame duck special session to execute a power grab where Scott Walker signed legislation to move powers away from the…”
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“2020, we won another Supreme Court race.”
60: Building a Unified Operation for Success with Ben Wikler | Jen Rubin's Green Room | Uploaded July 3, 2024 | 21:03-21:07
“We beat Trump by 6.10 of a percentage point in the November 2020 race.”
60: Building a Unified Operation for Success with Ben Wikler | Jen Rubin's Green Room | Uploaded July 3, 2024 | 21:22-21:28
“2022, we won most of the local elections that spring to prevent democracy denialists control of local offices.”
60: Building a Unified Operation for Success with Ben Wikler | Jen Rubin's Green Room | Uploaded July 3, 2024 | 21:27-21:34
“That fall, for the first time since 1962, we won a governor's race when there was a Democratic president.”
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“We won the majority in our state Supreme Court.”
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“The Supreme Court declared the gerrymandered legislative maps unconstitutional.”
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“Wisconsin, after Dobbs for 451 days was a no abortion state.”
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“A local judge in Dane county ruled that the 19th century law doesn't apply to abortions.”
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“Tammy Baldwin is the lead sponsor of the bill that would put the protections of Roe versus Wade back into place.”
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“Republicans getting within one vote on the state Supreme Court from overturning the 2020 presidential election.”
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“Republicans running for offices like governor and now Senate with Eric Hovde keep on saying that the 2020 election was in question.”
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“Eric Hovde has said senior citizens in nursing homes were not didn't have the mental capacity to vote in 2020.”
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“Tim Michaels said right before the election, once I'm elected, no Republican's ever going to win in this state.”
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“Wisconsin has one of the cleanest and fairest and most secure election systems in the entire country.”
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“The 2025 project is this enormous volume, as you say, 900 plus pages written by the kind of leading operatives for every tentacle of the…”
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“It would remove the independence of civil servants, people who go to work every day and serve the public regardless of whether there's a…”
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“They've been recruiting this huge number of people who are ready to pledge allegiance and loyalty to Donald Trump over the Constitution.”
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“What we know is people do not want the future that the Republican Party of this moment is trying to build for them.”
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“The Trump campaign has wasted no time in announcing that [Trump's] conviction for 34 felonies should be vacated.”
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“They've already successfully sought a delay in Trump sentencing.”
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“Trump insists [nonpartisan poll workers and election administrators] are guilty of horrible frauds to steal the election from [him].”
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“Now it's clear that the president cannot be found liable for any illegal act committed in their official capacity as president.”
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“The United States has had a more successful government and more successful economy than every other developed country in the world.”
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“Joe Biden is already tied in Wisconsin with Trump.”
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“In 2022, being an incumbent gave people a 2.2 percentage point advantage.”
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“This presidential election is being waged between two incumbents. Donald Trump and Joe Biden have both recently been president.”
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“I don't think a single incumbent lost in a, in a governor or Senate race in 2022.”
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“Kamala Harris kicked off her National Fight for Reproductive Freedom tour [in Wisconsin].”
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“Milwaukee is a place that people just love.”
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“Wisconsin had the highest college student turnout in the country in 2022.”
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“In some states, it's about breaking the Republican supermajority.”
60: Building a Unified Operation for Success with Ben Wikler | Jen Rubin's Green Room | Uploaded July 3, 2024 | 49:14-49:18
“In some states, it's about winning a Democratic supermajority.”
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“In some states, it's about getting rid of someone who's abusing power at the local level.”
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“In California, there's enough House races to tip the balance in the United States House.”
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