Jon Lovett

Be fucking cool.

So what do you guys think?

How bad?

So I've seen a couple of different numbers, but basically even with these new maps, if we have, you know, if we went by, let's say 4%, right, nationally, the house margin is 4%, then we still win the house.

Right.

And so I'm all for doing like a round of worry and recrimination.

But I would say that in this political environment,

The deeper, the deeper problem would be not having confidence that against a president with this approval rating with both kind of on the politics and on the policy has been as bad a president as you could ever imagine, as destructive a force as you can ever imagine enabled directly by Republicans who deserve to be held responsible for this president's misadventures.

Uh, we ought to be able to beat that 4% and we should focus on that because if we do that

then not only do we overcome their advantages in the gerrymander, we can win those Virginia seats that on the old map, and we can actually prove that some of their maps were drawn too aggressively and make them more nervous the next time they look at doing this to try to redraw the maps because the Republican incumbents will start to think, oh, if there's even a slight wave, I could lose my seat.

Exactly.

Yeah, people hate it.

They hate having all the options with what to do with the money.

But yeah, and I'd also say if this does galvanize people and we are able to win the House, suddenly you have people showing up in the Senate races that might not have otherwise.

And it's sort of, you know, Republicans can be hoisted by their own petards.

Which we've already been doing in every.

First of all- Well, first they'd have to get a bunch of new, they'd have to replace those justices because they'd been retired by the government at the age of, I think in decrepit 54.

54.

What does that mean?

Yeah, is it punch cards?