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Ben Wikler: “It was the fifth of the last seven presidential races that…”

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

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The Democratic Party Needs Change | The Ezra Klein Show

Published | Video Starts at 02:09

I believe this is how Democrats win in Wisconsin at the presidential level. They did not win in Wisconsin. What went wrong? So Kamala Harris lost Wisconsin by less than a percentage point. It was the fifth of the last seven presidential races that came down to less than 1 percentage point [in Wisconsin]. And on election night, I had this feeling in the pit of my stomach that nothing we'd done, that we tried everything we'd done, everything that we thought could make a difference, maybe none of it had had any impact. (02:09–02:15)

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Asserts that Wisconsin has had close presidential races in five of the last seven elections.

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