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Ben Wikler: “Tammy Baldwin won by 910 of a point in the Senate race in…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 02:06

And Democrats now have a fighting chance to to flip both chambers. In 2026, restrictions on ballot drop boxes and absentee ballot returns were lifted by the state. Those things made a big difference. Tammy Baldwin won by 910 of a point in the Senate race in 2024, in part thanks to the fact that the state was less rigged for Republican control. But in 2025, a progressive state Supreme Court justice is retiring. On April 1, there'll be election to fill that seat. (02:06–02:15)

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Asserts that Tammy Baldwin's 2024 Senate race victory was aided by less Republican control in Wisconsin.

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