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Ben Wikler: “Money should not dominate politics.”

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

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UPFRONT State party chairs ahead of election

Published | Video Starts at 04:51

Is this the way that these races should be run? Absolutely not. We should have. And this has been consistently in the Democratic Party's platform and not the Republican Party's platform, campaign finance reform. Money should not dominate politics. What we don't believe in is unilateral disarmament. And so if Republicans are going to ask the richest person in the world to funnel an unprecedented sum, more than any … (04:51–04:53)

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