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Ben Wikler: “We wound up winning two seats that prevented Republican…”

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

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CityCast Madison: Ben Wickler on Wisconsin Democratic Party's Future and Achievements

Published | Video Starts at 15:56

And the thing that I was most panicked about in the final stretch was Republican attempts to get super majorities in both chambers of the state legislature. And We wound up winning two seats that prevented Republican super majority in the assembly. That with a combined vote total of 2,000 combined vote margin of 2,499 votes. So that was less than 1/10 of 1% of the votes cast in the state. (15:56–16:01)

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