governor evers was elected with a 1.1 percentage point margin. that s two or three voters per precinct in our state. if you look at deeper wisconsin, smaller city, kelly rue is one of the fraudulent electors. she s on the city council into pierre. she was just subpoenaed by the january six committee and she is running for reelection. running against her as a candidate who is actually a poll worker who believes in free and fair and secure elections. so these races could shape, you, know whether voters are turned away, whether if someone has an error on their absentee ballot, they get a phone call about it so they can fix it. that can shape statewide outcomes and statewide outcomes can shape national outcomes in 2024. if we want to stop the coup in 24, we have to obsess over local elections right now. i want to underscore this point because you are saying this cause ezra klein to write not bad for the new york times in which he sided, you if you want to fight for the future of americ
if you go to west indies dot org slash volunteer, you can sign up and volunteers across the country can make those reminder calls. we don t need to persuade a hard-core trumpist to but for pretty much as he candidates. if we just remind people who voted for joe biden in wisconsin in 2020 that there are local elections coming up in the next few weeks, that can make all the difference. and if they vote this spring, they are definitely voting this fall, so you re helping throw out ron johnson and reelecting governor evers. it s such a powerful act, and it s so powerful because so few people on either side to it. when talk radio right now in wisconsin is pushing the slates of candidates, like melinda green bay, who are opposed to our democracy. and we need to organize harder than they. are we have to care about more. whoever works harder in these elections winds. they are not millions of dollars of tv ads, it s just person after person making phone calls when it gets a little warmer, knock
our governor s race in 2018, governor evers was elected with a 1. 1 percentage point margin. that s two or three voters per precinct in our state. if you look at deeper wisconsin, smaller city, kelly rue is one of the fraudulent electors. she s on the city council into pierre. she was just subpoenaed by the january six committee and she is running for reelection. running against her as a candidate who is actually a poll worker who believes in free and fair and secure elections. so these races could shape, you, know whether voters are turned away, whether if someone has an error on their absentee ballot, they get a phone call about it so they can fix it. that can shape statewide outcomes and statewide outcomes can shape national outcomes in 2024. if we want to stop the coup in 24, we have to obsess over local elections right now. i want to underscore this point because you are saying this cause ezra klein to write not bad for the new york times in which he sided, you if you want to
that you are covering this and i m glad to be with you. wisconsin was the tipping point state in 2020. it s a state that handed the presidency to trump, i m sorry to say, and then to joe biden. and in 2022, we re going to elect our governor who ultimately certifies the states election results in november. if governor reverses a reelected, he will continue his vowed to protect the right to vote to make sure our elections are secure. the republicans running, like rebecca crayfish, has refused to lay out sunny bills that were deciding who want. and what happens in november in that all-important governor s race will be seeped by what happens in wisconsin in these local spring elections. you have people like melinda echo who organize the stop the steal protests outside of city hall in green bay, our third largest city in our state, she s running for city council on a slate of conspiracy theorists stopped the steelers in that city. and the primaries coming up in
future of american democracy. these local races that determine the mechanics of american democracy are the ventilation shaft and the republican death star these races get zero national attention. they hardly get local attention. turnout is often lower than 20%. that means that people who actually engage have a superpower. the point you are making tonight, the point that our viewers need to hear, wherever they live in the country, particularly if they live in wisconsin, is that you have that superpower. literally, registering to vote, literally showing up to vote, think attending school board meetings, a standing city council meetings and knowing who s on the ballot, could be the mechanism for saving democracy in this country. that s absolutely right. and i would underscore something. no matter where you live in the country, you can join our virtual phone banks. we are calling voters all this weekend, and we ll be calling them through the primaries on february 15th through the local e