Benjamin McDonald Wikler (born February 3, 1981) is an American organizer, political figure, and the chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin since July 2019. He is a former senior advisor at MoveOn .

23 hours ago · Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has backed Wisconsin state party chair Ben Wikler to lead the Democratic National Committee (DNC), following an endorsement by Senate Minority Leader Chuck ...

1 day ago · Ben Wikler gives a brief presentation at the start of a biweekly Student Senate meeting in 1999 at the Madison school district's Doyle Administration Building. Wikler, then a senior at West High School, helped initiate the move to elect a student representative to the School Board and create a Student Senate.

3 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. The ...

6 days ago · Lujan Grisham echoed the sentiment that Wikler will value and invest in governors. "I will be voting for Ben Wikler for DNC Chair because he has shown that he knows how to raise historic funds for ...

Dec 11, 2024 · Wikler, 43, is now running to head the Democratic National Committee—at a time of low morale, disillusionment with current leadership, and uncertainty as to where it goes from here....

Dec 1, 2024 · Ben Wikler, chair of the Democratic Party in Wisconsin, says he's joined the race to lead the national party after an election that swept Donald Trump and Republicans to power in Washington.

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 ...

In 2019, Wisconsin Democrats elected Ben as their statewide chair. 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.

Aug 11, 2023 · Since becoming chair in 2019, Wikler has brought his party back from virtual irrelevance in Wisconsin. Four years after Donald Trump had demolished the so-called blue wall in the upper...