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Ben Wikler: “Republicans had rigged our maps to ensure that there was no…”

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

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Exciting New Discussion With Wisconsin's Susan Crawford and Ben Wikler

Published | Video Starts at 01:53

So when we. When I first joined this community in this, in that first electoral event in 2023, we talked about how Wisconsin had been rigged to break our democracy, how Republicans had rigged our maps to ensure that there was no way Democrats could ever get a majority in the legislature. They'd suppressed the vote. They'd attacked union organizing rights and smashed and smashed unions across our state more than any other state in the country. (01:53–01:59)

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Asserts that Republicans manipulated electoral maps to prevent Democrats from gaining a legislative majority in Wisconsin.

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