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Ben Wikler: “Republicans tried to sound like Democrats on preexisting…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 10:19

On camera talking to the Republican members of Congress about how what they were doing was gonna affect them. And we defeated that. We defeated the policy, and it became the defining issue for the 2018 midterm elections. And Republicans tried to sound like Democrats on preexisting conditions. And those fights are gonna come. There will be probably multiple of them. The fight against family separation is another example. (10:19–10:23)

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Asserts that Republicans attempted to align with Democrats on preexisting conditions during the 2018 midterm elections.

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