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Ben Wikler: “Republicans targeted state legislatures because they knew…”

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

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Ben Wikler With Bradley Whitford: How to End America's Meltdown and Save Democracy

Published | Video Starts at 08:03

I write that Project 2025 is reheated. Project 2011. Citizens United happened. The Tea Party wave in Wisconsin and a whole bunch of other states. Republicans targeted state legislatures because they knew something that Democrats had kind of forgotten at that moment, which is the rules of democracy are written at the state level. The Constitution puts states in charge of running the elections, not the federal government, despite all of Donald Trump's executive orders that he keeps losing court cases about. (08:03–08:15)

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Asserts that Republicans focused on state legislatures due to their role in defining democratic rules.

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