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Ben Wikler: “The guy who won became the Chief justice of the North…”

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

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Republicans poured in money and they won by 401 votes. It was 1/100th of 1 percentage point of all the votes cast in that race in that state that year. The guy who won became the Chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court and rammed through a reversal of a recent previous decision and re gerrymandered that state. after he got a majority and added three Republican House seats in North Carolina. That is the size of the entire Republican House majority nationwide right now. (25:02–25:13)

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Asserts that the winner of the North Carolina Supreme Court race reversed a decision and re-gerrymandered the state.

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