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Ben Wikler: “Musk's PAC put out a memo saying that Schimmel's message…”

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

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Ben Wikler Discusses Transition from Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair and Reflects on Political Landscape

Published | Video Starts at 05:11

And then the other side, the final stretch of ads, which I'm convinced, or my strong supposition, is that when Musk gave this last tranche of several million dollars to the Wisconsin GOP that they transferred to Schimmel and put. And Musk's PAC put out a memo saying that Schimmel's message needed to get Trumpier. And then Schimmel changed all of his ads in the final stretch to just being about Trump's endorsement. I think this was Musk calling the shots to say, you need to just talk about Trump all the time. (05:11–05:16)

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Asserts that Musk's PAC advised Schimmel to focus more on Trump in his campaign messaging.

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