Wisconsin Dems prepare to control Capitol for first time in 16 years

Wisconsin is in for some big changes on so many parts of daily life. Democrats are preparing to take control for the first time of the entire Capitol in 16 years. Jason Calvey is here to explain what could happen next. They won the trifecta. What are they going to do with it? Well, Ted, Democrats were tight-lipped about what exactly they would do first. Today they met with the governor-elect behind closed doors. Governor-elect, what do you want the legislature to do on day one? Governor-elect? Today, Governor-elect David Crowley met with the soon-to-be majorities in the Assembly and then the Senate, but he dodged my questions about what should come on day one. It'll be the first Democratic trifecta in 16 years as the party keeps the governor's office and flips control of the Wisconsin Senate and flips control of the Wisconsin Assembly. Democratic leaders who did talk didn't give much on their plans for the first days. What policies and issues will go first? No one would say. Leaders said they wanted to talk to their new majorities. They did talk about tackling affordability and legalizing marijuana. The future assembly speaker you see here there also talked about free school meals for all students, investing in public schools, lowering property taxes, and regulating prescription drug costs. Today, legislative Democrats picked their new leaders. The assembly's next speaker will be Gretchen Neubauer of Racine, the first woman to ever serve as Wisconsin's speaker. And the next Senate Majority Leader will be Diane Hesselbein of Middleton. And the next Senate President will be Mark Spreitzer of Beloit. Making sure that we fully fund our schools and don't force them to keep going to referendum. Making sure we have better ways to fund our local governments. Tackling AI and data center regulation. Making health care, child care, and housing more affordable. Protecting our environment and so much more. We will chart a new path forward for our state. Taking this mandate and doing everything in our power to move Wisconsin forward. We are going to lower costs, build great schools, and protect people's rights. I'm not optimistic. I don't like their agenda. I think it's bad for the state. I'm hopeful that the Republicans will be a little more aggressive. I believe we have a lot of the right answers and our platform is the best to pursue. For prosperity. That was Republican Bob Donovan, who lost his re-election bid, he swept out. He was swept out of office in that national blue wave. Voters again and again said their number one issue was the economy, and they took out their anger on Republicans in Wisconsin and across the country, even in strong Republican states like Texas and Kansas. Ted and Mary. Jason, there's talk of this national popular vote. Act, you know, coalition where a legislature promises the electoral votes in Wisconsin's case ten to the winner of the popular vote. Are they already talking about being part of that? The governor-elect, David Crowley, did talk about that, not in the segment you saw there where he did dodge questions in the hallway. Democrats today in both the Senate and the Assembly, we spoke to leaders in both chambers, and they weren't committing to that, but they said really on all these proposals, whatever we asked today, they said they wanted to talk to their majorities to hammer out what exactly will be the policies moving forward on day one. Gotcha. All right, Jason, thank you.