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Kelda Roys: “For more than two decades I have been able to turn good…”

Featuring: Kelda Roys, Democratic | Wisconsin Senate, District 26

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Kelda Roys outlines plans for schools, healthcare & affordability

Published July 20, 2026 | Video Starts at 11:39

Well, Meredith, I'm the only candidate in this race that actually has a track record of again and again being able to work with Republicans. For more than two decades I have been able to turn good common sense and progressive ideas into law at the state level. And there's no other candidate that has a track record like that, including Tom Tiffany. Well, I do want to kind of switch to some of your beliefs. (11:39–11:48)

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Asserts that she has turned progressive ideas into law at the state level for over two decades.

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“My plan would require an upfront payment of hundreds of millions of dollars for every data center.”
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“Those at the very, very top have never taken home a greater share [of wealth].”
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“Working people have never taken home a smaller share of the wealth that we create in American history.”
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“It's addressing the affordability crisis by raising wages and lowering costs, especially on those big ticket items like health care…”
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“We have an authoritarian regime in Washington that is attacking Wisconsinites every single day.”
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“We see that in the devastating health care cuts that Tom Tiffany made for his own constituents.”
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“The illegal tariffs that are bankrupting our farmers and our small businesses.”
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“The illegal war in Iran is causing havoc for all of us at the gas pump.”
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“My plan will open up that state plan so that anyone can buy in, not just individuals, but employers as well.”
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“It's Trump proof. It doesn't rely on permission or funding from the federal government.”
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“I fought for badger care expansion for 16 years. We should have done it. Republicans blocked it, and that was a catastrophic decision.”
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“The moratorium bill says we want to pause until regulations are passed. It has almost no support in the legislature.”
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“Fortunately the cheapest and fastest new energy sources to get online are actually clean and renewable sources. It's wind and solar.”
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“We also need PSC commissioners who are going to be watchdogs for consumers and for our environment.”
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“Republicans have forced the funding for public school to shift from the state onto local property taxpayers.”
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“We cannot keep diverting billions of dollars in every single budget out of our public schools and into private, unaccountable voucher…”
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“We have taken away so much money from schools over the last 15 years that our school districts and our teachers are really, really squeezed.”
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“Republicans have for years tried to voice this trickle down economic myth on the rest of us.”
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“I'm the only candidate in this race that actually has a track record of again and again being able to work with Republicans.”
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“In this cycle, I have raised $1.2 million, including the weak investment in my independent expenditure.”
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“I also have, alongside Hong, the most money still left in the race.”
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“I've actually been up on TV statewide for four weeks.”
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“93% of my money comes from right here in Wisconsin.”
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“I do not fund my campaigns with corporate PAC money.”
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“I can beat Tom Tiffany.”
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“I can govern on day one and make the transformative change that we need in this state to fully fund our public schools, to raise wages and…”
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