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Ben Wikler: “The right took over and rigged everything in [Wisconsin] to…”

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DNC Chair candidate Ben Wikler says party must invest in Black community 365/7

Published January 28, 2025 | Video Starts at 22:55

He comes out of Maryland, which as you know, very multicultural. What differentiates you? So I think the thing that differentiates me is that I come from a state where The right took over and rigged everything in [Wisconsin] to suppress votes, break unions, and smash our democracy. And my experience in this moment in our history for these last five years has been fighting back to unrig a system that was rigged to not work for people. (22:55)

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Asserts that Republicans in Wisconsin rigged systems to suppress votes and break unions.

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“Republicans smashed unions, suppressed votes, and gerrymandered maps.”
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“We've ended the gerrymander, we've restored some voting rights through state Supreme Court decisions [in Wisconsin].”
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“Republicans, when they get power, the first thing they do is they change the rules to ensure that the people who don't have power will never…”
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“If we're able to change these laws and actually restore the rights that everyone's supposed to have, that Vice President Harris would have…”
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“Republicans are planning massive assaults on voting rights through the US Supreme Court, through Congress, through the Trump administration.”
DNC Chair candidate Ben Wikler says party must invest in Black community 365/7 | Uploaded January 28, 2025 | 05:10-05:17
“Our state party makes investments in the spring, not just in the fall, in black owned media in Wisconsin.”
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“Milwaukee, which is where 70% of black Wisconsinites live, had the highest turnout of any city.”
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“We added votes for Harris relative to Biden.”
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“Black women did vote in every the exit polling. It's like 92% for Kamala Harris.”
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“Black men did vote like 78, 80% for Kamala Harris.”
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“Wisconsin is a majority white working class state.”
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“Most Wisconsin voters are white voters without a college degree who make, you know, working class middle class salaries.”
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“In Wisconsin they've shifted 4.9 points from 2018-22.”
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“In Minnesota, they shifted 8.9 points.”
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“Democrats over perform with white working class voters relative to the national average.”
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“Greene county in Wisconsin is the county with the largest white working class population.”
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“Biden won 71% white working class voters where Biden won in 2020.”
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“We got more votes in most rural counties in Wisconsin in 2024 than we did in 2020.”
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“The Republican Party right now is showing up in a lot more alternative media, new media spaces.”
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“We've had to grow bigger, deeper, more intensely, more year-round in a deeper partnership with the union movement.”
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“People think that this election was about trans issues... Republican ad campaigns... saying Democrats care about they them, not about you.”
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“Republicans ran on identity politics in this election to move the country away from seeing the actual impact of policies.”
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“Republicans are trying to rig this country for a handful of far-right billionaires.”
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