Jon Lovett

If you get the if you give the four seats from Florida, you get four seats potentially from this redistricting and then you lose the four that you were going to gain in Virginia.

That's a 12 seat swing that you could potentially see.

But nobody really knows.

I don't know.

I've seen like different people are nervous about the Virginia redistricting just because there's been no ruling yet.

But at the same time, they've ruled against some of the other objections.

So I'm not sure if it's just Democrats are nervous or if there's a legitimate chance it gets thrown out.

Yeah.

So you're saying, sorry, so it is net three across the entire redistricting fight we've just been fighting over the last year.

And then there's a potentially plus four to Republicans through this, the post-VIRA thing.

The problem is if they Republicans move in 2026, we can't move until 2028.

So it's unclear who the they is there.

Does he mean the legislatures have to vote twice as an approved new maps?

Doesn't totally make sense.

If this is because Louisiana is already voting and that's why there's some question as to whether the election could proceed, I think that's what it has to mean.

Now,

like who knows what the Supreme Court will do.

But the idea that, look, the Supreme Court, this court is a huge fan of unleashing chaos and then being like, we can't believe what's happening.

We can't believe what your people are doing with our very obvious and simple ruling.

But I do think it's a possibility that the Supreme Court would intervene in some way to say, we cannot have a bunch of states throwing out their maps and having people revote and all of this chaos in the run-up before an election is a tradition of