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Ben Wikler: “In Wisconsin in 2018, despite everything Scott Walker had…”

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

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Ben Wikler With Bradley Whitford: How to End America's Meltdown and Save Democracy

Published | Video Starts at 17:27

Races like that, where a few hundred votes, a few thousand votes can tip a critical power structure that winds up writing the rules for how national democracy works. And you put your organizing effort into those fights, you can change everything. And In Wisconsin in 2018, despite everything Scott Walker had done to rig the political system, despite a huge avalanche of money on the right, the people knocking on doors neighbor to neighbor across our state powered Tony Evers into a victory by one point. One percentage point, which I know which in Wisconsin, more than 1 percentage point. We have a word for that. It's a landslide. (17:27–17:41)

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Asserts that Tony Evers won the Wisconsin gubernatorial election in 2018 by one percentage point despite obstacles.

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