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Kelda Roys: “Joan is an incumbent, although she doesn't live in that…”

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

Wisconsin State Legislature Update with Sen. Kelda Roys (Hour 1)

Published October 2, 2024 | Video Starts at 41:25

I feel really confident that we're going to win the Green Bay seat with Jamie Wall, Chris Altheim seat in the Fox Valley, Sarah Kieski against Joan Balwig. That there's just no question. You know, Joan is an incumbent, although she doesn't live in that district. she only represents. That's a small percentage of the voters there. But she just has such a horrible anti choice record. She's not going to be able to outrun that. (41:25–41:29)

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Asserts that Joan Balwig is an incumbent who does not live in the district she represents.

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“Senate Democrats are likely to go from being outnumbered 2 to 1 in the state Senate to being pretty close.”
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“After November we'll be at the Republicans will have probably 18 seats and the Democrats will have 15 seats.”
Wisconsin State Legislature Update with Sen. Kelda Roys (Hour 1) | Uploaded October 2, 2024 | 23:55-24:02
“In two more years we're going to flip and the Democrats will have 18 seats and the Republicans will have 15 seats.”
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“The University of Wisconsin and UW systems as a whole is by far the biggest economic driver we have in our state.”
Wisconsin State Legislature Update with Sen. Kelda Roys (Hour 1) | Uploaded October 2, 2024 | 27:36-27:44
“Right now we've got a big workforce shortage.”
Wisconsin State Legislature Update with Sen. Kelda Roys (Hour 1) | Uploaded October 2, 2024 | 27:52-27:56
“We are losing our best and brightest young people, and we are not producing enough graduates of all kinds of educational programs.”
Wisconsin State Legislature Update with Sen. Kelda Roys (Hour 1) | Uploaded October 2, 2024 | 28:07-28:17
“Donald Trump is deranged. And even if his policy views were acceptable, which of course they're not, and his rhetoric was appropriate, which…”
Wisconsin State Legislature Update with Sen. Kelda Roys (Hour 1) | Uploaded October 2, 2024 | 29:37-29:59
“Joan Baldwig...doesn't believe in abortion in any circumstance, even if the life of the woman is jeopardized.”
Wisconsin State Legislature Update with Sen. Kelda Roys (Hour 1) | Uploaded October 2, 2024 | 30:22-30:32
“She's also taken stances against ivf, against stem cell research, against birth control.”
Wisconsin State Legislature Update with Sen. Kelda Roys (Hour 1) | Uploaded October 2, 2024 | 30:32-30:38
“This is a woman who voted almost 20 years ago that hospitals should be able to deny emergency contraception to women and girls who are…”
Wisconsin State Legislature Update with Sen. Kelda Roys (Hour 1) | Uploaded October 2, 2024 | 30:37-30:47
“When you don't actually have to face the voters and compete...it allows for politicians who are just so far out of the mainstream to just…”
Wisconsin State Legislature Update with Sen. Kelda Roys (Hour 1) | Uploaded October 2, 2024 | 32:35-32:52
“Democrats have worked really hard to make sure that our candidates reflect their communities.”
Wisconsin State Legislature Update with Sen. Kelda Roys (Hour 1) | Uploaded October 2, 2024 | 32:53-33:00
“We welcome the Republicans, you know, who are fair minded and believe in democracy.”
Wisconsin State Legislature Update with Sen. Kelda Roys (Hour 1) | Uploaded October 2, 2024 | 33:05-33:10
“Democrats are going to have a great election night in November.”
Wisconsin State Legislature Update with Sen. Kelda Roys (Hour 1) | Uploaded October 2, 2024 | 33:32-33:36
“Trump, a confirmed person who commits sexual assault.”
Wisconsin State Legislature Update with Sen. Kelda Roys (Hour 1) | Uploaded October 2, 2024 | 35:43-35:48
“The maps were struck down as unconstitutional in the first place.”
Wisconsin State Legislature Update with Sen. Kelda Roys (Hour 1) | Uploaded October 2, 2024 | 38:50-38:54
“We've got maps that are actually contiguous, that are keeping those communities of interest together.”
Wisconsin State Legislature Update with Sen. Kelda Roys (Hour 1) | Uploaded October 2, 2024 | 38:56-39:03
“Five kind of competitive seats in the state Senate.”
Wisconsin State Legislature Update with Sen. Kelda Roys (Hour 1) | Uploaded October 2, 2024 | 39:56-40:00
“Four out of those five [candidates] grew up on farms.”
Wisconsin State Legislature Update with Sen. Kelda Roys (Hour 1) | Uploaded October 2, 2024 | 40:12-40:15
“I think we're going to pick up four seats.”
Wisconsin State Legislature Update with Sen. Kelda Roys (Hour 1) | Uploaded October 2, 2024 | 41:12-41:14
“Wisconsin has traditionally had pretty high voter turnout.”
Wisconsin State Legislature Update with Sen. Kelda Roys (Hour 1) | Uploaded October 2, 2024 | 42:07-42:12
“We had some difficulty after the voter ID laws went into effect that kind of suppressed our turnout.”
Wisconsin State Legislature Update with Sen. Kelda Roys (Hour 1) | Uploaded October 2, 2024 | 42:11-42:17
“Kamala Harris rally was packed to capacity and they never advertised it.”
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