Amy Walter

In order to get 10 Democratic and just one Republican in that state, they drew a lot of districts that in a better year for Republicans, Democrats might not be able to hold on to those.

Yeah, I think we have a number of examples.

Indiana was obviously another place where Republican legislators said, we don't really want to do this right now.

But there were other states that quietly shelved redistricting.

Kansas is one.

They could have redrawn those lines.

New Hampshire, again, Republican-controlled.

Nebraska, another Republican-controlled state that could have redrawn their lines.

So not every state went along.

When I first started covering politics instead and started covering redistricting, it was a really parochial exercise.

And every state had its own quirks.

Like New Jersey, for example.

It used to just be known that New Jersey Republicans and Democrats would get together and all agree, right?

Like, we like this member.

Let's keep this seat.

Or this person has a powerful...

Post on Ways and Means Committee or something brings a lot of money to New Jersey.

Whatever it was, we're going to keep these seats.

We're going to make these districts a little bit tougher.

Usually it was just to protect.