Dan Pfeiffer

The ability to... What was left here is they allowed partisan gerrymandering as a principle in Shelby County.

Now what they have done is essentially said...

that the last possible way in which you could prevent gerrymandering, which was designed and inherently always will, dilute the power of black voters.

If you were trying to dilute the power of Democratic voters in a state, the way in which you do that is you dilute the population that votes at 80% to 90% for Democrats.

And so they're now saying that is OK.

That is what is happening here.

It has dramatic implications.

As you say, Louisiana, 30% of its population

is black.

They're going to only have one representative at best when this is over.

In several states like Arkansas, like Alabama, Mississippi, after this is all said and done, at some point in the future, we'll have no black representatives, even though they have 30% of their population is black.

They are going to eliminate the Democratic delegations in most southern states because of this.

They are going to cut down the number of black members in places like North Carolina and elsewhere.

And by some estimates, 30% of the Congressional Black Caucus would be gone if the Republicans push forward to maximum advantage with gerrymandering with these new laws.

So the question is, in this midterm, what is the actual impact?

The Republicans are going to get one more seat out of Louisiana.

I think we're going to talk a minute about the map in Florida, but this gives more legal cover to what's a pretty illegal map in Florida.

And then in Tennessee, there are a handful of states, because this is coming so late in the cycle, there's limits to what Republicans can do.

The filing deadlines have passed in all 50 states.

Many states have held their primaries.