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Ben Wikler: “Mother Jones just reported that he's [Elon Musk] now up to…”

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

: Ben Wikler and Jen Rubin in conversation (1)

Published March 28, 2025 | Video Starts at 06:38

I suspect this one is going to beat it, if it hasn't already. How much is Elon Musk pouring in? And why do you suppose he's doing it? So Mother Jones just reported that he's [Elon Musk] now up to $4 million in spending in this election. That number says 4.2 groups tied to Musk has born in that number keeps going up. I think that at one level, he's got his own lawsuit about trying to get direct Tesla sales in Wisconsin. (06:38–06:44)

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Asserts that Elon Musk has spent $4 million on the Wisconsin Supreme Court election.

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“Wisconsin's State Supreme Court is maybe the second one of the very top, most important judicial bodies in America because Wisconsin is the…”
: Ben Wikler and Jen Rubin in conversation (1) | Uploaded March 28, 2025 | 00:38-00:50
“It's the only state where five of the last seven presidential races has come down to less than 1 percentage point.”
: Ben Wikler and Jen Rubin in conversation (1) | Uploaded March 28, 2025 | 00:52-00:59
“The state Supreme Court has operated for or had operated for 15 years under Republican majorities as rubber stamp for whatever MAGA…”
: Ben Wikler and Jen Rubin in conversation (1) | Uploaded March 28, 2025 | 01:26-01:37
“In 2023 in the most expensive election judicial election in American political history when Janet Protostewitz defeated Dan Kelly.”
: Ben Wikler and Jen Rubin in conversation (1) | Uploaded March 28, 2025 | 01:37-01:46
“Democrats now have a fighting chance to flip both chambers [of the Wisconsin state legislature] in 2026.”
: Ben Wikler and Jen Rubin in conversation (1) | Uploaded March 28, 2025 | 01:55-01:59
“Restrictions on ballot drop boxes and absentee ballot returns were lifted by the state.”
: Ben Wikler and Jen Rubin in conversation (1) | Uploaded March 28, 2025 | 02:00-02:05
“Tammy Baldwin won by 910 of a point in the Senate race in 2024, in part thanks to the fact that the state was less rigged for Republican…”
: Ben Wikler and Jen Rubin in conversation (1) | Uploaded March 28, 2025 | 02:06-02:15
“In 2025, a progressive state Supreme Court justice is retiring.”
: Ben Wikler and Jen Rubin in conversation (1) | Uploaded March 28, 2025 | 02:15-02:21
“Brad Schimmel... loves the 1849 pre Civil War abortion ban in Wisconsin.”
: Ben Wikler and Jen Rubin in conversation (1) | Uploaded March 28, 2025 | 02:29-03:32
“Elon Musk has decided to make it his personal mission to elect Brad Schimmel to ensure that the far right has a rubber stamp in the Supreme…”
: Ben Wikler and Jen Rubin in conversation (1) | Uploaded March 28, 2025 | 02:41-02:51
“He [Brad Schimmel] sat on thousands of untested sexual assault kits and didn't look for, you know, for whether there were DNA matches for…”
: Ben Wikler and Jen Rubin in conversation (1) | Uploaded March 28, 2025 | 03:26-04:29
“In Wisconsin, we organize year round.”
: Ben Wikler and Jen Rubin in conversation (1) | Uploaded March 28, 2025 | 09:03-09:06
“We carried more than 80 staff into the, into this year at the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, we have the biggest team of any state party in…”
: Ben Wikler and Jen Rubin in conversation (1) | Uploaded March 28, 2025 | 09:49-09:56
“Democratic turnout fell in most of the country, but in Wisconsin it rose.”
: Ben Wikler and Jen Rubin in conversation (1) | Uploaded March 28, 2025 | 10:49-10:55
“Tammy Baldwin and Kamala Harris got about the same number of votes, but tens of thousands of Republicans didn't vote down ballot for their…”
: Ben Wikler and Jen Rubin in conversation (1) | Uploaded March 28, 2025 | 11:12-11:19
“We flipped 14 state legisl[ative seats].”
: Ben Wikler and Jen Rubin in conversation (1) | Uploaded March 28, 2025 | 11:18-11:21
“Elon Musk wants to team up with Brad Schimmel, the person who was at the heart of the, the attack on democracy in the state of Wisconsin…”
: Ben Wikler and Jen Rubin in conversation (1) | Uploaded March 28, 2025 | 11:42-11:52
“The richest person in the world [is attempting to] buy the state supreme court in the tightest state in the country.”
: Ben Wikler and Jen Rubin in conversation (1) | Uploaded March 28, 2025 | 14:06-14:12
“We don't need to outspend the world's richest man to out organize the forces of the right.”
: Ben Wikler and Jen Rubin in conversation (1) | Uploaded March 28, 2025 | 14:29-14:34