Dan Pfeiffer
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held their have not held their primaries but early voting has already started um and so it's very like it would create mass chaos to do to redraw the maps at this late stage of the game but there are some places where they can do it tennessee is one of those places there is one democratic district in tennessee steve cohen in the memphis area i believe hosts it represents it the uh
Trump spoke to the governor of Tennessee today to try to encourage him to redraw the maps before the election.
Marsha Blackburn, who is the senator from Tennessee who's running for governor in Tennessee, called for this.
You could see that happening here.
They could do something similar in Missouri, in South Carolina.
I'm not sure they'll be able to do that.
In Georgia, where early voting has started, it started this week, I believe,
There are some Republicans calling for a special session to redraw the maps.
Would Brian Kemp do that?
I don't know.
But you can sort of, it's going to help Republicans in this election.
But the longer term consequence is a House that's going to be less Democratic, small D, less Democratic, big D. It's going to be much whiter, which one of my Substack subscribers said would be like adding white food coloring to mayonnaise.
So, which I thought was very funny.
Yes, we are talking about super white Hellman's mayonnaise.
And it's just it's like this is terrible for democracy.
And it's going to mean going forward a structural advantage for Republicans in the House that is akin to the one they currently hold in the Senate.
Can Democrats take the majority?
Under that scenario, absolutely.
And we might win enough seats this time to do that, even under a post-Supreme Court decision map.