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Ben Wikler: “The Republicans tried to stop to not seat the victor in that…”

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

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They won another state supreme court race even while Trump won in 2024. They won the state supreme court race again by 1/100 of 1% of the votes cast in the state. The Republicans tried to stop to not seat the victor in that race. There was a titanic legal battle and they won. They this fall, if they win the state supreme court race, they have a path to flipping the majority in their state Supreme Court by 2028 and then ungerrymandering that state. (1:01:50–1:01:58)

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Asserts that Republicans attempted to prevent seating the victor of a North Carolina state supreme court race, leading to a legal battle.

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