evidence: After Evers unseated three-term Republican incumbent Scott Walker, Wisconsin’s Republican legislators responded to their defeat by voting in late 2018 to strip the governor’s office of certain executive powers that Walker had exercised for twelve years but that Evers could not wield after he took office in January 2019. In effect, the GOP used its rural-inflated and gerrymandered legislative majority to dilute the power that Democrats had obtained by winning a governor’s race the Republicans were powerless to rig because gubernatorial votes, aggregated statewide, are immune to mapmaking mischief. Walker’s loss so infuriated Wisconsin Republicans that they began saying the quiet part out loud—namely, that urban voters ought not to count as much as voters in the rest of the state. "If you took Madison and Milwaukee out of the state election formula, we would have a clear majority," said Wisconsin Republican House Speaker Robin Vos. "We would have all five constitutional officers and we would probably have many more seats in the legislature."