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Ben Wikler: “We'd have a ticket that could pack 11,000 people into a…”

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

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Ben Wikler & Kristin Lyerly

Published | Video Starts at 01:17

That a vice presidential candidate who most Americans had never heard of would come along and just light the country on fire and that We'd have a ticket that could pack 11,000 people into a field in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and then head to Detroit and get 15,000 people there. It is like, it's like someone turned on the lights and suddenly everything is visible and everyone's excited and it's like a surprise party. That's how it feels. It does. (01:17–01:33)

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Asserts that the Democratic ticket drew large crowds in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and Detroit.

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