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Eugene Daniels

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The Rest Is Politics: US
185. Trump Vs China: Who Really Holds the Cards?

And also, maybe, the thing about gerrymandering is that you can only do it based on past information.

The Rest Is Politics: US
185. Trump Vs China: Who Really Holds the Cards?

And so you have to assume all of the things will stay the same.

The Rest Is Politics: US
185. Trump Vs China: Who Really Holds the Cards?

You have to assume all of the voters...

The Rest Is Politics: US
185. Trump Vs China: Who Really Holds the Cards?

that voted the last time are going to vote the exact same way.

The Rest Is Politics: US
185. Trump Vs China: Who Really Holds the Cards?

You have to assume that as you carve it up, people aren't moving, people aren't coming in.

The Rest Is Politics: US
185. Trump Vs China: Who Really Holds the Cards?

So it is very difficult to do.

The Rest Is Politics: US
185. Trump Vs China: Who Really Holds the Cards?

And when you have a kind of chaotic politics like we have right now, when voters feeling like we'll try anything, it makes it so much more difficult.

The Rest Is Politics: US
185. Trump Vs China: Who Really Holds the Cards?

What they'll say is, one, Trump started this with Texas.

The Rest Is Politics: US
185. Trump Vs China: Who Really Holds the Cards?

You've heard that.

The Rest Is Politics: US
185. Trump Vs China: Who Really Holds the Cards?

But also, the times in which they have done this in both California and Virginia, it has been done through voters.

The Rest Is Politics: US
185. Trump Vs China: Who Really Holds the Cards?

And so for them, it is trying to fight fire with fire.

The Rest Is Politics: US
185. Trump Vs China: Who Really Holds the Cards?

We went to the people.

The Rest Is Politics: US
185. Trump Vs China: Who Really Holds the Cards?

And we went to the people and that that is really important for them.

The Rest Is Politics: US
185. Trump Vs China: Who Really Holds the Cards?

I think what they should be more focused on.

The Rest Is Politics: US
185. Trump Vs China: Who Really Holds the Cards?

And frankly, if you talk to black electeds, this is where their head is.

The Rest Is Politics: US
185. Trump Vs China: Who Really Holds the Cards?

It's less on, oh, my God, the redistricting in Virginia.

The Rest Is Politics: US
185. Trump Vs China: Who Really Holds the Cards?

It's the Supreme Court putting the death knell into the Voting Rights Act a couple of weeks ago.

The Rest Is Politics: US
185. Trump Vs China: Who Really Holds the Cards?

Yes.

The Rest Is Politics: US
185. Trump Vs China: Who Really Holds the Cards?

And like literally Louisiana, who was having people actually already sending in their absentee ballots in their primary, stops the primary.

The Rest Is Politics: US
185. Trump Vs China: Who Really Holds the Cards?

The governor stops the primary so that they can redistrict.