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Ben Wikler: “We now have fair maps in our state legislature.”

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

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And we managed to fight and organize and push that back. So the Supreme Court has really transformed our politics in the state by reading the Constitution before approving any set of maps. And We now have fair maps in our state legislature. We still have gerrymandered congressional maps because those have not been adjudicated yet. But in this race now, Brad Shimmel, the guy who Josh Caller, Attorney general, beat in 2018, he's running to become an kind of ultra hyper mega Supreme Court justice. (05:27–05:30)

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Asserts that Wisconsin now has fair electoral maps for its state legislature.

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