MILWAUKEE, Wis. (SPECTRUM NEWS) -- In a wide-ranging discussion on presidential politics, the 2020 Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee and the impact of the ongoing impeachment inquiry on state legislative races in Wisconsin, Spectrum News 1 hosted a special event with WisPolitics.com Tuesday.

Moderated by Spectrum News 1, the panelists included former state Senate majority leader, Democrat Chuck Chvala, and his one-time sparring mate in Madison, former Assembly Speaker, Republican Scott Jensen.

The two now talk Wisconsin politics on the WisPolitics.com show, "The Insiders."

A somewhat surprising takeaway from their hour-long discussion on the state of politics in Wisconsin centered around the fact that even if President Donald Trump doesn't win Wisconsin in 2020, he may help downballot Republicans in various state legislative races.

"In terms of competitive races, we could easily-- not easily-- but we could very well have a situation where Trump were to lose the presidency in Wisconsin and yet have a positive impact on Republicans statewide," Chvala said. "That's not absolute-- there's a lot of water to go under the bridge. "f the impeachment thing keeps going in the wrong direction for him, it could be really bad."

"[W]e saw that in some of the other states," Jensen added. "You mentioned Kentucky where the news headline [was] that the Republican governor was defeated by 5,000 votes. Underneath that, for the first time in the history of the state, every other office statewide [went] to a Republican and the Republicans' margins in both chambers are strong."

You can find more from Chvala and Jensen here.