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Ben Wikler: “The biggest uniting thing is people who are the most…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 01:11

And when you look at who they lost, it's not concentrated among one ethnic group or one racial group or one gender or one geography. It is across the board. The biggest uniting thing is people who are the most affected by high prices. And the second thing, in my view, something that's much under discussed, is that it's people who were the beneficiaries of support during the COVID pandemic that dramatically raised the income that people had, especially in the bottom end of the economic spectrum. (01:11–01:16)

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Asserts that high prices are a uniting factor for voter dissatisfaction.

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