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Ben Wikler: “That prevented Republicans from taking over our state…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 14:30

And I'm sure the Republicans would ban them again if they took power. The state legislative fights, we stopped Republicans from getting a super majority in the State assembly in 22. That prevented Republicans from taking over our state elections commission, which has a bipartisan board right now. And if they had gotten that, they were talking about making it impossible for college students to vote where they actually live and go to school, for example, which would have absolutely cost us the U.S. senate race. (14:30–14:36)

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Asserts that preventing a Republican super majority stopped them from taking over the Wisconsin state elections commission.

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