Dave Weigel

But Meares, the attorney general who lost to Jones, his campaign for much of the year was what you typically do if you're an attorney general, especially in a swing state, which is look at all the people I've been putting in jail.

I've been keeping a safe crime is down.

My opponent voted for criminal justice reform.

He's not going to keep crime down.

And Jones's strategy was –

Hey, Doge exists.

Other states had attorneys general who were suing to get your job back.

And Jason Mayores didn't because he's a Trump supporter and they had footage of Mayores at a Trump rally.

And whenever they could polarize the race, it was good for them.

And so the final week.

It's like he's bad because of Trump and it's harming us in a material way.

On either side, Maryland and North Carolina had attorneys general who were suing and Virginia didn't.

But so the final 10 days of the race, Democrats call back the legislature, which they can do to start this process of redistricting.

And it's another thing.

This is a big theme of the night is Democrats being very bold and saying, screw you.

We're going to redistrict to get if you're going to do it, we're going to do it.

And Mayara is.

gets into that fight by saying, well, I think this is illegal.

I read the state constitution.

I'm suing to stop this.