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Ben Wikler: “Republicans thought that they were guaranteeing themselves…”

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

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Coffee with the contrarians with Norm and Ben Wikler

Published | Video Starts at 24:40

That means adding to the map. That means fighting in places that Republicans thought of as safe, including the dummy mander districts in Texas where Republicans thought that they were guaranteeing themselves red seats and might in fact turn into more Democratic seats. That means making absolutely sure we are locking down and winning in the toss up seats like in Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district I write about in the book as a kind of paradigmatic example. (24:40–24:46)

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