Wikler grew up in Madison, Wisconsin, where he cofounded The Yellow Press, a student-run newspaper at Madison West High School. [3] While a student there, he won election to the student senate [4] and launched Students United in Defense of Schools [5] with Peter Koechley [6] to demand increased school funding [7] and succeeded in allowing students to elect a representative to the Madison ...

Ben Wikler was elected chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin in June of 2019. Since then, he has led the party through a string of historic victories, including Wisconsin’s defeat of Trump in 2020, Governor Evers’ reelection in 2022, and two landmark state Supreme Court wins that delivered a progressive majority to the Court for the first time in 15 years.

Sobre Ben Wikler Plataforma Unite. Fight. Win. Today, the country we love needs the Democratic Party to be stronger. To unite. To fight. And to win. In Wisconsin, we run a permanent campaign. We organize and communicate year-round, in every community—and it works. We've ended GOP control and unrigged our state.

6 days ago · Among the candidates vying to lead the Democratic National Committee is Wisconsin’s Ben Wikler, who has served as chair of the state Democratic Party since 2019. His fiercest competition to lead the national Democratic Party comes from Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Chair Ken Martin and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley.

Ben has chaired the WisDems through five years of extraordinarily intense elections—and multiple historic victories. In the 2020 presidential race, Wisconsin flipped from red to blue. In 2022, Tony Evers became the first Democrat to win a Wisconsin Governor's race during a Democratic presidency in more than half a century.

Aug 16, 2024 · Ben Wikler has been the chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin since 2019. When the Democratic National Convention convenes in Chicago Aug. 19-22, a central figure from Wisconsin will be ...

2 days ago · WASHINGTON – For Ben Wikler, the final stretch of the race to lead the Democratic National Committee has been about momentum. The Democratic Party of Wisconsin chairman is projecting a sense of ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Ben Wikler, chair of the Democratic Party in Wisconsin, said Sunday he has joined the race to lead the national party after an election that swept Donald Trump and Republicans to power in Washington. “In Wisconsin, we’ve built a permanent campaign,” Wikler said in his candidacy announcement. “We organize and communicate year-round in every corner of the ...

Dec 1, 2024 · Politics. Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Ben Wikler enters race to lead national party. Since losing the White House and U.S. Senate in the 2024 election, Democrats are looking for new leadership — Ben Wikler, chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, has joined the race to lead the national party, with the DNC choosing a new chair in February 2025.

Aug 11, 2023 · But on a recent afternoon in the small village of Grafton, Wisconsin, Ben Wikler might as well have been Bono. Two dozen middle-aged and retired volunteers stood in line to clutch the hand of the ...