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Ben Wikler: “Republicans re gerrymandered the state through the state…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 01:44

It was like we'd grabbed a branch as we fell off the side of a cliff and we're pulling ourselves up by our fingernails. Republicans then took away a bunch of the powers he'd been elected to wield. Republicans re gerrymandered the state through the state Supreme Court after that. And I was elected chair in 2019 with the goal of supercharging our kind of grassroots organizing and how we communicate across the state. And year over year, we flipped two. (01:44–01:48)

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Asserts that Republicans used the state Supreme Court to gerrymander Wisconsin again.

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