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Ben Wikler: “This year, finally, for the first time in 15 years, we had…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 02:15

Finally, a new kind of pro democracy majority on the state Supreme Court struck down the gerrymander. We stopped Republicans from preemptively impeaching a Supreme Court justice. Right. And This year, finally, for the first time in 15 years, we had fair maps. And it meant that even in a year where we were basically 50, 50 statewide in terms of the votes, we flipped 14 state legislative seats. (02:15–02:20)

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Asserts that Wisconsin had fair electoral maps for the first time in 15 years.

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