Amy Walter

It was like an incumbent protection plan.

Now this has become all completely nationalized.

and has turned the process from one in which the goal was to basically, yes, maximize the number of districts your party could win, but really to maximize the influence that you, your delegation, could have in Washington.

And that's

Obviously, no longer the case.

Well, I guess, so let's put it into two categories.

One is how many seats actually shift from Democratic held to Republican held?

And if we assume that the maps that passed in Tennessee and Alabama, they pass legal muster, we're still waiting on Alabama, that basically took three Black majority districts, two of which were represented by Black members of Congress and made them safely Republican.

But you also wonder, to the point of its impact on the sort of environment in November, we already know that Democrats are much more interested and engaged when it comes to voting.

They are more fired up.

They are more frustrated.

And it's just one more –

way in which Democrats may have something else to fire up their voters.

And honestly, instead, this is what some Republicans will say they are worried about, which is, you know, maybe you get three seats, but you've also put a hornet's nest.

And it could engage voters to come and turn out who...

really hadn't felt that interested in voting before this decision.

Yeah, this to me becomes the other really interesting question as we go forward, which is how far will Democrats be willing to go to expand their advantage in states where

they have majority Black or majority Hispanic seats.

Right, that they—what's the priority?

Is the priority we need to have as many seats as possible for our party, and our party—