Battleground States: Wisconsin: Ben Wikler – Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair

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🗓️ 14 April 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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The Republican Party has spent years undoing the will of the people in the state of Wisconsin. With gerrymandered voting maps, they've been able to lose the popular vote and still have a huge majority in the state legislature. But things are changing thanks to Ben Wikler and the Wisconsin Democratic Party! In our first Battleground State episode, Ben explains the work that is being done to preserve democracy in this critical swing state and how they are organizing to secure a win for Joe Biden in November.

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0:28.6	Hey everybody, we got a great one today you know for a change and this time this time I
0:41.1	really mean it this one is actually really great.
0:45.1	Unlike so many that I say are great even though they turn out to be embarrassing
0:49.8	debacles. But this one, this one I've got Ben Wickler the chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party who's
0:58.7	one of the best if not the best state party chairs in the country. I've had my eye on this guy for quite some time.
1:06.8	Ben was one of the Harvard students, Team Franken, who helped me pull together my number
1:12.4	one New York Times bestseller lies and
1:14.7	lying liars who tell them a friend and balance look at the right. That was 20 years
1:20.1	ago. Since then Ben has been an organizer for one great organization after another, including
1:25.8	move on and has led the Democratic Party of Wisconsin to some major landmark victories
1:31.3	like carrying Biden to victory in Wisconsin in
1:35.3	2020. Wisconsin is of course one of the key battleground states this cycle.
1:40.9	Trump won it in 16 by 23,000 votes. Biden by just over 20,000 and right
1:48.0	now Biden and Trump are in a dead heat in the polls in Wisconsin and we will be focusing on the battleground states as we lead
1:56.5	up to November. Wisconsin has been an amazing story in 2010. It went from a Democratic governor in both houses of the
2:05.4	state legislature to a Republican governor, Scott Walker, and both houses
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