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Ben Wikler: “We stopped Republicans from getting a super majority in the…”

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Ben Wikler What Democrats Need to Learn from 2024.

Published January 6, 2025 | Video Starts at 14:27

We had dropboxes banned when the Republicans had the Supreme Court in Wisconsin. Now they are legal. And I'm sure the Republicans would ban them again if they took power. The state legislative fights, We stopped Republicans from getting a super majority in the State assembly in 22. That prevented Republicans from taking over our state elections commission, which has a bipartisan board right now. (14:27–14:31)

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Asserts that Democrats prevented Republicans from achieving a super majority in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 2022.

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