Dave Weigel
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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.
And so voters who are making their minds up at the last minute, or maybe Democrats who might vote or not, they remember, oh, yeah, that's right.
We have a Republican attorney general who's trying to stop us from getting two or three or four more seats to beat Trump.
I don't like that.
And they had another reason to put up with Jones.