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Ben Wikler: “This is the first election in my lifetime where Democrats…”

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Published | Video Starts at 01:36

And I will note we don't have all the voter file data, so there's some answers we don't have yet. But we can see one thing really clearly, which is that This is the first election in my lifetime where Democrats lost the majority of people earning under $50,000 a year. And if you pull back the lens, you see that the ruling party in every country in the world, every developed democracy in the world that's had an election this year, the party in power, left, right and center, lost vote share. (01:36–01:43)

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Asserts that Democrats lost the majority of low-income voters in the recent election.

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