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Ben Wikler: “We won the majority in our state Supreme Court.”

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

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60: Building a Unified Operation for Success with Ben Wikler | Jen Rubin's Green Room

Published | Video Starts at 21:49

1962, when JFK had a 70% approval rating, we won by 1 point. This time, we won by 3.4 points. So that felt awfully good. And then the Big Bang was 2023. We won the majority in our state Supreme Court. And that fall, we fended off the Republican attempt to impeach our Supreme Court justice. The Supreme Court declared the gerrymandered legislative maps unconstitutional. We got new maps in February. (21:49–21:52)

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Asserts that Democrats won the majority in the Wisconsin state Supreme Court in 2023.

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