Katty Kay

We'll be back to talk about the Democrats.

Welcome back.

Eugene, in the first half, you were talking a bit about black voters and Democrats and voter enthusiasm and how Trump's numbers are so in the polls that it's going to be terrible for the Republicans in November.

So what has happened in the last few days may tilt the balance the other way a little bit because Republicans are doing everything they can to make the map as friendly as they can themselves.

We covered the Virginia vote on redistricting on this program.

Virginia's Supreme Court,

struck down the congressional redistricting map that had been approved by voters, which means that they go back to the old map.

Virginia Democrats had felt that the new map that the Virginia voters voted on and approved would have netted them an extra four Democratic-leaning seats.

Those have now been taken away and we get back to where we were.

Of course, this follows.

Texas is redistricting.

California is redistricting.

Louisiana is redistricting.

Florida looks like it's going to be redistricting.

We are now in a full-on redistricting arms race.

And the Democrats, it looks like a kind of running out of weapons.

It's a bit like this whole thing of who's looking at who's got more munitions, because it feels to me that the Democrats in this arms race have an inherent disadvantage.

How much of a blow?

Because I was getting texts from Democrats on Fridays, literally, oh, fuck.

You know, oh, my God.