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Dan Pfeiffer

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

Other states have...

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

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

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

Trump spoke to the governor of Tennessee today to try to encourage him to redraw the maps before the election.

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

Marsha Blackburn, who is the senator from Tennessee who's running for governor in Tennessee, called for this.

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

You could see that happening here.

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

They could do something similar in Missouri, in South Carolina.

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

I'm not sure they'll be able to do that.

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

In Georgia, where early voting has started, it started this week, I believe,

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

There are some Republicans calling for a special session to redraw the maps.

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

Would Brian Kemp do that?

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

I don't know.

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

But you can sort of, it's going to help Republicans in this election.

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

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.

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

So, which I thought was very funny.

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

Yes, we are talking about super white Hellman's mayonnaise.

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

And it's just it's like this is terrible for democracy.

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

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.

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

Can Democrats take the majority?

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

Under that scenario, absolutely.

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Did Trump's Supreme Court Rig the Midterms?

And we might win enough seats this time to do that, even under a post-Supreme Court decision map.