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Ben Wikler: “Republicans [in Wisconsin] gerrymandered the living…”

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

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Published December 4, 2024 | Video Starts at 03:34

In 2016, what we saw was the culmination of what Walker and Republicans did in all those years, which is to rig the state to break our democracy. They Republicans [in Wisconsin] gerrymandered the living daylights out of our legislative districts. They suppressed voting rights, they smashed unions, they defunded public education and public service services. (03:34–17:18)

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Asserts that Republicans in Wisconsin heavily gerrymandered legislative districts.

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“In every wealthy democracy around the world, left, right and center, parties lost votes.”
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“That [tax cut] expires next year.”
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“They [Republicans in Wisconsin] suppressed voting rights, they smashed unions, they defunded public education and public services.”
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“The biggest uniting thing is people who are the most affected by high prices.”
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“It's people who were the beneficiaries of support during the COVID pandemic that dramatically raised the income that people had.”
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“We [Democrats in Wisconsin] have been able to unrig the legislative maps that allowed us to flip 14 state legislative seats this November.”
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“The Trump administration, last time they were in, their one major signature legislative accomplishment was passing a multi trillion dollar…”
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“Republicans across the board are going to try to shovel gigantic amounts of the money that a lot of people could urgently benefit from…”
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“Democrats can unite and fight back against that at every level.”
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“There's a united belief that we shouldn't be dismantling the support that the middle class and working class folks across this country rely…”
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“My job before being the state party chair in Wisconsin was as the Washington, D.C. director at MoveOn.”
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“I was deeply involved in the fight against the repeal of the Affordable Care act.”
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“Wisconsin had a shift of 1.5 points towards Trump relative to 2020.”
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“Nationwide it was 6 points [shift towards Trump].”
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“Outside the battleground states it was 6.7 points [shift towards Trump].”
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“We flipped 14 state legislative seats [in Wisconsin].”
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“Tammy Baldwin won her race.”
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“Democrats lost people making under $50,000 a year.”
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“Trump is not, is completely against working people. He's the guy who smashes unions and wants to fire people who are striking.”
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“He's the guy who wants to carve up the federal government and give handouts to people with hundreds of billions of dollars in their bank…”
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“We have won a lot of races in the face of those attacks up and down the ballot in the state of Wisconsin.”
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“The counties where we actually increased, not just the number of Democratic votes, but actually increased the margins were the suburbs of…”
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“The rest of the country and the rest of the state moved a little bit in Wisconsin and a lot nationally towards Trump.”
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“Every single Republican voted against trying to expand, extend the child tax, the child tax credit, for example, and voted against support…”
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“Trump won the state [of Wisconsin]... the first Republican to win the state since 1988.”
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“Five of the last seven presidential races in Wisconsin have come down to less than 1 percentage point.”
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“In Wisconsin, there's two ways on the... presidential ballot if you're running in a Democratic or Republican primary.”
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“You can go and collect 8,000 signatures from your supporters to get you on the ballot.”
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“The Phillips campaign decided not to do any organizing [for ballot access in Wisconsin].”
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“They wound up getting 16,000 votes. They did worse than Ron DeSantis in Wisconsin.”
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“The Democratic Party of Wisconsin had endorsed Joe [Biden].”
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“They didn't launch the media campaign until they launched the lawsuit the day before the filing deadline for those signatures.”
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“There's a very clear path for people who want to challenge, you know, challenge. Want to get on the ballot.”
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“Democrats believe that our economy should work for working people.”
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“We believe everyone is worthy of freedom and dignity and respect.”
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“The stakes for the rest of our lives, the rest of our kids lives, the rest of the lives of all the people in this entire country are going…”
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“We can win trifectas in states that are out of reach right now.”
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“Republicans are trying to throw out tens of thousands of votes [in North Carolina].”
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“We can break Republican supermajorities in states like North Carolina.”
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