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Dan Pfeiffer

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Trump Loses the Gerrymander War

It's just like gerrymandering in general is bad and they shouldn't have sent us down this path.

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Trump Loses the Gerrymander War

Yeah.

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Trump Loses the Gerrymander War

And black Americans too.

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Trump Loses the Gerrymander War

I saw, I saw both Asian and the Asian vote and the black vote were quite high.

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Trump Loses the Gerrymander War

Yeah.

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Trump Loses the Gerrymander War

Um, because again, especially black voters like know what it is to be gerrymandered.

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Trump Loses the Gerrymander War

Um,

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Trump Loses the Gerrymander War

Let's talk about what the redistricting war Trump started with Texas hath wrought.

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Trump Loses the Gerrymander War

When you add up all the states now that have redrawn their maps, Democrats are, as of this moment, plus one in the overall count.

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Trump Loses the Gerrymander War

The only state left is Florida, where the legislature has a special session scheduled for next week.

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Trump Loses the Gerrymander War

But it's actually unclear if DeSantis changing the maps will net Republicans any additional seats.

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Trump Loses the Gerrymander War

And some in the party are already feeling what Axios described as, quote, buyer's remorse.

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Trump Loses the Gerrymander War

Yeah.

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Trump Loses the Gerrymander War

bet it's a bummer huh um when asked if the redistricting effort was worth it the chair of the nrcc whose job it is to keep republicans house majority uh told axios quote it's not for me to say because really it wasn't my decision uh in california independent kevin kiley uh who was a republican and now caucuses with the republicans still uh told axios quote i wish none of this had happened well he lost his seat yeah exactly um did we win redistricting

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Trump Loses the Gerrymander War

To the Constitution.

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Trump Loses the Gerrymander War

So that seems like a hurdle.

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Trump Loses the Gerrymander War

A bunch of Eileen Cannons on that thing.

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Trump Loses the Gerrymander War

Yeah.

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Trump Loses the Gerrymander War

A longtime Florida Republican consultant talking to Politico, he ran the numbers and that person ran the numbers and concluded the new map couldn't get Republicans zero seats for the reasons you talked about.

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Trump Loses the Gerrymander War

So because right now they hold a 20 to 8 edge.