In the money race between America’s billionaires and small donors, the emerging political oligarchy is showing staying power. Both parties have megadonors, but Republicans have far more.
Midway through early voting the percentage of voters that are registered Democrat is down compared to 2018 and 2020. While Republicans have warmed up to early voting over the years, Democrats still dominate early voting and Republicans dominate election day voting.
across the country to throw out republican maps and turn districts blue in time for the election. and they have already had success in north carolina. former wisconsin governor and finance chairman of the republican national redistricting trust scott walker joins us now with how he is fighting back. thanks for being here, governor. great to be with you. pete: i hear you play the drums. if you want to join brantley gilbert at some point you can. this is serious stuff. yeah. pete: it feels like you are getting in the weeds but you are fighting for the future of maps for matters who wins elections. eric holder has been sue until it s blue mentality. pete: sue until the district is blue. even a state like north carolina where republicans are in charge of the assembly and the senate. the two houses there. they have gone to court and over the years they have gotten involved in supreme court races. so, now, the liberals, eric holder s team now controls who is on the supreme court in n
supreme court, you saw the candidate who was backed by unions and progressives, and essentially democrats beat the candidate who was backed by scott walker, the nra and a lot of business interests. it was a clearly defined race. the interesting thing in wisconsin is over the last quarter century really, the republicans, the conservatives, have figured out how to win these races. they ve gotten very, very good at winning not just open seat races but occasionally beating an incumbent who s more progressive. so for scott walker this was supposed to be an easy one. instead last night was daf st e devastating. it wasn t that she won by 12 points, as you pointed out, it was that she won in a campaign that he clearly established herself as a more progressive
attention to be drawn to this race. when we talk about the nra right now, and as a parent of three daughters in high school and college, we talk about families like mine being afraid of having their kids in school. and my opponent vowed to protect the firearm freedoms of the nra. they sent out mailers to that effect, and i think wisconsin was very concerned with that. as a political matter in wisconsin, what were the risks for you in taking on the nra? well, we have a situation in wisconsin for the last decade, the years that i ve been a judge, where we ve had special interest money pouring into these supreme court races. and money like groups like the nra and other business lobbies and other groups. and that money has been buying justice or a justice. we ve then had supreme court justices, like the one i announced again, sitting on cases that involve that money and then ruling in fair of those groups that spent the money. wisconsin has seen that s not fair. and i think this win