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(WTAQ – WLUK) — After the current Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, Ben Wikler, announced Thursday afternoon that he will not seek a third term, a Two Rivers native is looking to fill his shoes.
Devin Remiker has served in leadership roles with WisDems, including Executive Director, during victories from 2018 to 2025.
Remiker released the following statement on his campaign for WisDems Chair:
An unhinged egomaniac in the White House is pumping and dumping our economy to line the pockets of his billionaire cronies while threatening our basic rights and jacking up costs on everyday necessities. Justice-elect Susan Crawford and the voters of Wisconsin sent a message last week that our state is ready to fight back and lit a beacon of hope across the nation, but our work is not yet over.
I’m running for WisDems chair because now isn’t the time to hit pause or rebuild, it’s time to fight tooth and nail. I will be ready on Day One to double down on our successes and make needed changes. I have the experience working with local party leaders and grassroots activists to provide the partnership they desperately need on the frontlines of this fight.
I’m incredibly grateful to Ben Wikler for the leadership and vision he brought to the party, and working with him has been the honor of a lifetime. I am fortunate to have learned from him and to have the opportunity to build upon his legacy. I know that he is leaving the party with a rock-solid foundation that I hope to build upon.
Over the past decade, Devin has been at the heart of the majority of the most successful Democratic political fights in Wisconsin.
Previously, Remiker engineered the party’s vote-by-mail program as the pandemic forced campaigns to innovate and adapt. This program was credited as the “pandemic playbook” and helped elect Justice Jill Karofsky in 2020 before being followed by other states and the 2020 Biden-Harris campaign.
In 2021, Remiker was named executive director of the state party and helped lead the organization through a historic midterm for Democrats capped off by Governor Tony Evers’ re-election – the first time since 1962 that Wisconsin elected a Democratic governor while Democrats held the White House. During the 2022 cycle, the party also launched its second “Save the Veto” campaign that stopped Republicans from using rigged maps to win supermajorities in both chambers. He continued to lead the party through Justice Janet Protasiewicz’s election in 2023 and launched the Defend Justice Initiative to put a stop to the Republican attempt to impeach her after taking office.
Throughout 2024, he served as a Senior Advisor to the Biden-Harris and then Harris-Walz presidential campaigns, helping build the largest campaign effort the state of Wisconsin had ever seen, keeping Wisconsin the closest of any battleground state in defiance of the national red wave and helping to re-elect Senator Tammy Baldwin.
Today, he serves as a senior advisor for WisDems, where he led the party’s People v. Musk campaign, generating a flood of grassroots pushback and earned media attention to combat Elon Musk’s attempt to buy the 2025 state Supreme Court race. Remiker will take a leave of absence from the party as he travels the state to meet with party leaders and activists about this position.
Remiker’s career in politics began with working for State Representative Steve Doyle’s campaign. He managed the successful 2013 campaign for La Crosse Mayor Tim Kabat before serving as campaign manager for Congressman Ron Kind’s 2014 and 2016 re-election campaigns. Remiker then joined the Democratic Party of Wisconsin’s staff in 2018.
Remiker is 32 years old and a lifelong Wisconsinite. He was born and raised in Two Rivers, and is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse. Today, he lives outside of Reedsburg with his wife Emma and two dogs, Wilbur and Francis.
Delegates to the WisDems state convention will choose party officers at the State Convention, June 14-15 in the Wisconsin Dells.
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