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Wikler, who served as Wisconsin Democrats’ leader for the past five years, said he is running for the role to “unite the party, fight everywhere, and win.
“This is a purple, intense state, and what it teaches you when you fight in a state like Wisconsin is how to organize everywhere in rural areas, cities, suburbs, small towns, across race, ethnicity, gender, geography, generation, ideology,” Wikler said. “It teaches you to communicate, even to voters who may not be paying attention to what Democrats have to say.
Nationally, Sen. Chuck Schumer previously called Wikler one of “best chairs of a state party not just today, but ever.” Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi praised Wikler’s leadership of the party while speaking at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago earlier this year. “You know that ‘Big Ben’ is recognized nationally as a preeminent state party chair,” Pelosi said. “His reputation is a great one.”While leading the party, Wikler has delivered Democrats a number of wins, including Trump’s defeat there in 2020, Gov. Tony Evers’s reelection in 2022, and flipping the state Supreme Court and delivering a progressive majority for the first time in 15 years.
Still, Wilker’s time as Wisconsin Democrats’ leader has not been all success. Mandela Barnes, the 2022 Wisconsin Senate candidate, could not unseat Sen. Ron Johnson and Republicans have remained in control of both chambers of Wisconsin’s statehouse. The GOP control of the Wisconsin state legislature is due in part to gerrymandering, however.
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