Democrats Are CHEATING To Win Midterms, Virginia Redistricting Election Ads ARE LIES To STEAL Power
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On this episode of Mythology, we take a deep dive into the Democratic Party s strategy to win back the House in November, and how gerrymandering could be the key to doing so. Plus, we talk about the new map drawn in Virginia, and why it s a good thing for the Democrats.
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Right now, everyone is suggesting that Democrats are on their way to a major victory in November, taking back the House.
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And all this is according to the prediction markets, the analysts and the pollsters.
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But there is information coming out that suggests Republicans could actually hold their own.
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And there is a decent probability that if everything is on the level, Republicans might actually still hold the House.
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You see, Democrats are experiencing record low favorability for this time in a presidential cycle, indicating Republicans do have an opportunity on the merits to convince the American people to vote for the Republican Party come November.
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Now, with the war in Iran and all of that controversy, it's looking pretty bad for the Republicans.
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But again, people just don't like the Democratic Party.
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They are split between the wacky far left and the corporate Democrats.
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That's everybody's arguing. So can they really make it through? Well, there's one thing that
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may actually change the game for the Democrats outside of a popular vote, and that is gerrymandering
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the redistricting battle. Instead of actually saying, you know what, let's have a conversation
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with the American people about what our government should look like. They said, let's just change the
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structure of government so that we win no matter what. That is a procedural election, not a popular
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one. You see, over Easter, I was with my family and we were in Virginia. We were grabbing dinner
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and I saw on the TV something strange. It was a commercial. This commercial said, help us
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Virginians protect the integrity of our elections, a temporary measure to protect elections in
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Virginia. It was funny because my wife looks at me and she goes, they're lying. And I said, yes.
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And she goes, they're not asking to protect elections.
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You see, the way they're framing it in these commercials is that we must protect our elections
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in Virginia, despite the fact this is redistricting for federal districts, which would change
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the makeup of the federal government's Congress, not the state level.
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The interesting thing, the new map drawn up in Virginia puts five congressional
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districts in one city, Alexandria. Why would you need to do that? It is patently obvious to anyone
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what is going on. Now, of course, they'll say, hey, Republicans started it first. And that's
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technically correct. It is technically correct that in Texas, they decided to redistrict
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mid-decade, which is abnormal. At the same time, I would argue, however, the Texan redistricting
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effort was under the guise of we have a new election. We have a change in leadership.
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We should drop our maps to reflect the population, especially considering there are challenges to the
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Voting Rights Act. Now, don't get me wrong. By all means, you can argue they should not be doing
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that. But what I will say is the response from Democrats has been overt. OK, we've always
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gerrymandered, they say. Illinois is a joke. Let me show you how Illinois gerrymanders. And they
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said, we will eliminate the Republicans from our state. There will be no Republican representation.
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Now, by all means, again, argue that it's a tit for tat. And I'll say, well, you know,
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to a certain degree. Yeah, that's true. But this is not in the end about tit for tat.
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It is about Republicans backing down and saying we're not going to do it. And that's what we saw
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in Indiana. And Democrats saying now's our chance. Again, I'll stress this. Call it a tit for tat.
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And I will point that the Republicans have backed down in several key areas, notably Indiana being a big player here.
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They will not redistrict. They said, we're not going to do it. It's too far.
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And Democrats said, we're going to do it anyway.
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So when you have a procedural vote instead of a popular one, then, yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out Democrats do win the midterms on that alone.
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But let's take a look at what is actually going on.
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Now, I did cover this the other day, but I want to jump back in real quick for context before I show you what it is Democrats are planning to do.
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Democrats face steep favorability deficit despite election gains. Just 28 percent of Americans view
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the Democratic Party favorably. Republicans don't fare much better in the latest polls.
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And this is why it matters. We are supposed to be seeing a major uptick in support for the
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Democrats because Donald Trump is unfavorable, right? I mean, people are pissed off about the
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war in Iran. And even after Trump says ceasefire, they still attack him over it. Still, this is
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going to be different. You see, there are a few factors at play. One, in the 2018 midterms,
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can you believe it's been that long? Trump lost. And people said, well, the reason why is because
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MAGA did not show up for these members of Congress. They wanted to vote for Trump. They did not want
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to vote for whoever these guys were. Perhaps. Well, now, my friends, the question is, will the
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same thing occur? Will Trump supporters come out to vote for Republicans? Well, I would argue the
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inverse is also possible. That is, despite Trump's unfavorability among a growing sector of people
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in this country, individual members of Congress remain popular among their constituents.
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If the Republicans can rally their base for the individual candidates outside of Trump,
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they could probably still win, except for the case where they're redistricting everything
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and they're going to win by procedure anyway. So that's the important point here.
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Let me show you what we got in the polls. Current Democratic Party favorability is minus 20 and
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Republicans are minus 15.4. So let's just be real. Everybody hates of both. The Republicans
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are hated just a little bit less and they're enjoying tremendous voter registration. That
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being said, we have other polls showing that the current independent self-ID shows that individuals
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that are not affiliated as members of the party identify less with the Republican Party than ever
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in like ever before in recent history maybe like the last 30 years or some ridiculous number
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let's take a look at what's currently going on in virginia here we go i love this one usa today
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says democrats lost the plot now they're losing voters progressive states like new york and
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california keep losing residents to lower tax high freedom states like texas and florida so
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what's the response let's roll baby we got a commercial for you it's 30 seconds long and uh
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let's make it a little bit can i can i even make it bigger here we go let's let's let's play watch
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these commercials virginia we are counting on you republicans want to seats in congress to
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raid the next election and wield unchecked power for two more years but you can stop them
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by voting yes by april 21st help put our elections back on a level playing field
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Oh, yeah. Voters decide, not politicians. Let voters decide. This is the responsible thing to
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do. Help us chart a better path forward, Virginia. Vote yes by April 21st. Well, I'll just put it
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this way. If you if you're for power, if you don't care how you get it, vote yes. If you believe in
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honor and integrity and balance, vote no. If you think it's important that Democrats and Republicans
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have fair representation, vote no. If you think it is important that you take as much power as
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you can to defeat Republicans, vote yes. That's the honest assessment. But wait, there's more.
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We have another one. It's one of the biggest threats to our democracy ever. MAGA Republicans
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redrawing congressional maps in a midterm election power grab. Free and fair elections are the
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cornerstone of our democracy, but they're under unprecedented attack. That's why the yes on fair
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elections amendment is critical. It's a temporary emergency fix that restores fairness in our
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elections, preserves independent redistricting and returns power to the people. Vote yes by April
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21st. I would call all of that a lie. That's not what it does. Now, again, I'll say this. Texas did
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do it. Other Republican states did it. But Indiana ultimately backs down. The Republicans could not
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muster up a strong enough base among their own voters to say we should do this. Democrats are
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saying, don't stop now. We're so close to stripping power from Republicans. But I want to
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show you. Let me show you what they're doing so you can really understand why this is cheating.
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But wait, there's more. I love this one from WDBJ. Confusing ads under fire in Virginia
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redistricting race. Let's roll. Thank you. We are just under three weeks from learning the fate of
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Virginia's congressional districts. You will be able to decide if the General Assembly can
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temporarily redraw the districts, giving Democrats four more blue leaning districts.
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It could affect who represents you on Capitol Hill.
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That special election is April 21st, but early voting is already underway.
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And groups are trying to win over some of your votes in some eye-popping ways.
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And that's where we bring in WDBJ7's Colby Johnson.
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So, Colby, we have already covered some interesting tactics that groups are using.
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Yeah, Mitch, so as you mentioned, both sides of this redistricting battle
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have drawn criticism from the other for misleading ads in different parts of the state.
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Yesterday, the Virginia NAACP called out the Democracy and Justice PAC
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for the latest round of flyers it sent out targeting black voters.
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They're desperate to try to confuse individuals,
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all the deceitful lies and propaganda that they're publishing i know president obama
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cannot be pleased about this over the past week these flyers showing former president barack
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obama have been mailed out using anti-gerrymandering quotes from him and urging voters to vote no on
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look at this look at this i gotta jump back a little bit former president barack obama have
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been mailed out for too long gerrymandering has contributed to stalled progress and warped our
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Using anti-gerrymandering quotes from him and urging voters to vote no on the redistricting referendum.
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The NAACP says these mailers are meant to confuse and disenfranchise black voters.
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Obama has been a vocal supporter of the redistricting referendum.
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Justice and Democracy PAC chair A.C. Cordoza defends the ads.
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He says the quotes are not out of context and show that Obama and Governor Abigail Spanberger
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supporting the redistricting amendment goes against their values.
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But what they want right now, what's going to advantage them is for people to vote yes.
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So we're encouraging people to stand with their values.
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I just want to point out real quick, the NAACP attacking this black man for saying
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Cordoza's PAC previously came under fire for these flyers, comparing the redistricting push to Jim Crow voter suppression.
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In Page County, the Democratic Committee came under fire for a similar tactic, using this billboard and quote from President Trump to encourage voters to vote yes in the heavily Republican area.
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Cordoza says the redistricting will dilute black voices by breaking up two majority-minority districts.
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I swear to God, these people, the NAACP to support it.
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Now, last I checked, the NAACP stood for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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OK, not the NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Caucasian Democrats.
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That's what's happening. These maps are Caucasian Democrats, period.
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The president of Roanoke's NAACP chapter, Dr. Brenda Hale, says redistricting would make the upcoming elections more fair by countering similar moves made in Texas and other red states.
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So she's not talking about what's fair for the residents of Virginia.
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She's talking about a collective power grab nationally.
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So if you live in Virginia and you believe that you should have a right to speak your mind and have a representative for you, they're saying, no, that's not a fair election.
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We want to take that away from you so that we can balance power nationally.
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Well, what I will say, my friends, is that I'm not going to cut any great slack for the Republicans who are also pulling redistricting moves.
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But in Virginia, I find it to be particularly egregious.
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Again, you can argue the Republicans are just too weak and they tried fine.
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Democrats have the edge in the midterm simply by redistricting polls be damned.
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If they think that's fair elections, then let's just say this.
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I'm not going to play any more for you, but there's a whole bunch, a whole bunch.
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This is from Virginians for fair elections, which is fake news, fake news.
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you can see they're running these ads. Let's see. We'll play one. In law enforcement, we respond to
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emergencies. And right now, fair elections are facing an emergency. Politicians in other states
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are trying to pack Congress, redrawing maps to reelections. But Virginia can level the playing
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field with a temporary emergency measure that restores fairness. Restores fairness. I can't
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understand these people. I protect Virginia's people. Now we need to protect Virginia's voice.
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Virginia has just stripped gun rights from everybody, raised a bunch of taxes and done
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a bunch of whack-a-loon stuff. But hey, let me show you Virginia's current congressional map.
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This is what Virginia is like right now. And you can see it has 11 congressional districts.
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So you got over here, you got district number two. It's got that little piece of Delmarva,
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you know, the Delmarva Peninsula. You got District 1 up here. You got, oh, it's so beautiful. It's
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so beautiful. Look at all this. Look at all this. There's Alexandria. And let's zoom in.
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Not too far. Not too far. Here's Arlington, Fairfax, Prince William, Loudoun, you know.
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Look at these districts. 8, 11, 10. Well, how about I show you the proposed map? And I'll show
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you why I call this one egregious and evil. This is the new proposed congressional map for Virginia.
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And as you can see, it is very different. When you zoom into Alexandria, what do you find?
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You find that there are five congressional districts in one city. Now, how is that possible?
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Take a look at this beauty of a gerrymander. District eight should stop here, but they create
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this little strip of land that goes way up into Alexandria. Why? So they can jam in a hyper left
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political faction into this district. Then you can take a look at District 1. Same thing. Look
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at these strips. 1, 2, 3, 4, and lovely District 10, just on the outskirts of Arlington, but
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capturing that already left. Look at that. There's Winchester. For those that don't know,
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So we're right across the street from District 11.
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And look what they do in order to eliminate Republican voices.
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They connect District 7 stretching all the way down here, all the way down here into
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So why is it that they are going to have five congressional districts in the Alexandria
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That is five districts to represent just one city because it's evil, because they're cheating, because that is the way you win these days.
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So right now, currently you have five strong Democrat, two lean Democrat, one toss up, two Republicans and one strong Republican.
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With the new maps, it's going to be five strong dem, five lean dem and one Republican district.
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They can't get rid of that last one. Nothing can do about that. But it's effectively a plan
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to eliminate. To eliminate the Republican voice from Virginia. Now, again, I'll stress this. They
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make arguments about other states. And here we go into an ideological battle. Indeed. I'm going to
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say this, whether you're for the Republicans or against the Republicans or for Democrats or
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against them, we're not debating policy anymore. Now it's just they're calling it unfair that
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other states are deciding how to run their states. Okay. At the national level, the Democrat and the
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Republican Party are no longer interested in negotiations or popularity. Now it's a question
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of can we extract as much power as possible? And where that leads us to? I don't know. Civil war.
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I said it. This is from the New York Post. GOP started the gerrymander fight, but in Virginia
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may not have the guts to finish it. They say this year's midterm election aren't just about
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who wins this November. They're about who wins the fight over gerrymandering. Nowhere is the
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battle fiercer than in Virginia, a state where just voters six years ago approved a constitutional
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amendment to take partisanship out of redistricting. Now, Democrats want to make an exception to that
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rule that Virginia voters approve by a nearly two-thirds majority in 2020. You see, here's the
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thing. We had Youngkin. Virginia had some Republican for a minute, and it largely had to do with the
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trans bathroom stuff. Loudoun County was huge. Well, now you got strong Democrats sweeping
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across the board in Virginia, running roughshod over the state and the people who live there.
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Let me show you an example of why I have utter disdain for Democrats and why I think that
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Democrats are cheating. And although I think I see no problem with throwing shade toward
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the Republicans, fair point. Take a look at this map. This is we don't do that. This is Illinois.
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Let's see if we can get this a little bit bigger.
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Notice this right here, Congressional District 13.
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It is a thin strip that combines Champaign, Springfield, and what does that say?
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Well, take a look at District 15. They sliced right through the middle of it to capture the Democrats and give them their own district. This is a fake district. It is clearly made to manipulate. And it's wrong. You can take a look at how Chicago operates. And I'd argue very similarly. Take a look at these districts. Look at District 1 stretching into Chicago. Why?
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Now, listen, some people argue that gerrymandering is pure evil and all this stuff.
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The thing is, sometimes districts will look weird because of commercial districts and
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It's just we don't have real elections anymore.
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Because the truth is, if they did congressional districts legitimately based on just population
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All of it. Democrats wouldn't win. And we know it. And this is where we currently are with the
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midterms. We got this from Fox News. Republicans win, but Democrats also claim victory with ballot
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box surge in Trump territory. Fuller said Trump was a key factor in us winning the seat vacated
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by Marjorie Taylor Greene in January. The good news is for Republicans, Republican won. But
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Democrats are pointing out that they never expected to win this seat because Trump had won by 37
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points, but they did make gains. They say Harris, a cattle farmer, spent four decades in the
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military, lost to Fuller by 12 points. That is a significant improvement from the 29-point defeat
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he suffered to Green in 2024. Democrats cited the result in the 14th district as the party's
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latest ballot box overperformance. Indeed, indeed, maybe Democrats are just going to win.
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Donald Trump has got a lot of people pissed off.
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I mean, when you've got prominent people who used to be in Trump's camp now calling for his removal,
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it's going to be tough for Trump to muster up any kind of support to win this one, huh?
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Two races in battleground states on Tuesday saw the party make massive gains compared to 2024.
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four. Democrats just had one of their best election nights since Trump returned to the White House
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again in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election. A Democratic backed candidate sailed to a nearly
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20 point landslide victory. Wow. Meanwhile, a Georgia Democrat slashed Trump's margin of victory
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by two thirds. The results in the battleground states home to. Yeah, we get it. It's a wow
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moment in Wisconsin politics. Republicans ought to be sitting down tonight and going, OK,
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Well, Tuesday's results are not a perfect parallel to November.
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The consistent Democratic overperformances and races large and small since Trump returned
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suggest the base is motivated to turn out for all matter of contests.
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Well, the polling I've seen, if they hold true from the special elections,
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some are suggesting Democrats will take a supermajority because the issue is that it's not
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just, my friends, about whether or not they're going to swing the elections.
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It is also about the redistricting combined with sentiment.
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Let's take a look at 270 to win's house interactive map.
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I think we're looking at the actual map, congressional.
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If you take a look at this, you can see the Democrats are on track to win 212 to Republicans, 205.
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But 18 seats are still considered toss ups, meaning theoretically we can get 223 Republican seats.
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I think it's very unlikely. But I will stress this. This is factoring in the polls we have right now.
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So when they are saying Democrats are ahead, yes, in the current polls still, they're 18 toss ups.
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Let's zoom in to our good friends over in Virginia over here.
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And you can see they're still basing this off of the old congressional map.
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If we were to change Virginia right now based on polling, we got, let's turn that one blue
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and we'll turn that one blue and that's what it's going to look like.
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And so that changes the game to 215 guaranteed for Democrats.
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Indeed, my friends, that's the nature of the game.
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I wonder if the people of Virginia will actually vote for this.
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Vote for a redistricting that removes their congressional seats.
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I have to imagine the districts that are Republican aren't going to be too happy about that.
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Now, the Republicans have a backup plan and it is cold, hard cash.
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They're banking on Trump's wall of cash to stop Democrats in the midterms.
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So they're going to dump a lot of money in this one.
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Will the Republicans simply say it's not worth it?
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They'll say it's going to be a rough two years, but let's save the money we have for 2028.
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so we can maintain the presidency, the Senate, and the House.
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If we dump too much money now and we're going to lose anyway,
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then going into 2028, the people are going to be like,
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I'm voting for the Democrats because Trump's the president.
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And then Trump goes to prison and so does everybody else.
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And the point is this. Democrats will obstruct and cause chaos. This will make people's lives
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worse. Then they will. The people who don't know politics will just simply say, I don't know what's
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going on other than Trump's the president. So I'm voting for the other guy. And there is the big
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risk. But I'm curious, really. I mean, we know Democrats still have the edge. We can see it
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right here. But I'm curious, who are they going to bring in for 2028 after the midterms? I got
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some theories. I'm going to say something scandalous, scandalous, just because it'll be
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scandalous. Not that I actually think it's true or anything like that, but I have some,
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you know, scandalous rumors. Well, take a look at Axios real quick. What are they saying? What
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are they saying? Several potential 2028 nominees. You got Gavin Newsom. You got Shapiro. You got
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Buttigieg. Maybe. Maybe, huh? You know, maybe. I don't know. Okay. Newsom, perhaps. Well, you know,
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I've talked about the rumors that maybe it'll be Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Kent, or maybe they'll go
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independent. But I'm going to throw a scandalous name into the mix for fun. Tucker Carlson.
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And immediately you're going, what? That's the stupid running into the Democrat. Are you kidding
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me? Tucker Carlson's not going to run. What is this from the national interest? Tucker Carlson
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was a Democrat for years. Was a bow tie wearing Democrat before he backed Trumpism.
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what is all this huh he has liberal views yes a democrat he changed his views no no no this is
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one dumb article just trying to smear what from the nation the leftist publication
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tucker carlson's conversion story with the original headline headline what happened to
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Tucker Carlson? What? What is this from The Nation? A biography of Tucker Carlson talking
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about how he's changed? What's going on here? Why did the left write this background on Tucker
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Carlson? I'm not going to be wrong. It's not like a puff piece or anything. But when you start
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getting publications saying Tucker was a Democrat, he's had a conversion, he's changing, I call this
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priming. I'm not saying they'll actually bring Tucker. I think it's a long shot. I think it's
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more scandalous than anything to suggest. But I do find it interesting that this narrative has
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emerged where there is a reformation happening among liberals where they're listening to Tucker
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Carlson. Why? It's critical of Israel, anti-war, and been criticizing Donald Trump. And liberals
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have been listening. Same is true for Candace Owens. Suburban women. Interesting. So what
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happens if it is Tucker? It is Tucker who comes out in the next couple of years and says the only
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way to stop Trump is with a strong Democratic Party. And he says, listen, we agree on these
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issues. And he highlights anti-war criticism of Israel, criticizing Trump. And he says,
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we don't have to agree on everything else, but we have to unite to stop Donald Trump and Trumpism.
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that might work. Seriously. Tucker Carlson comes and says, I know we've not gotten along on so many
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things, but we, the principal issue for Democrats is orange man bad. Tucker comes out and says,
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we meant to agree, but I promise you I will stop Donald Trump and I have conservatives who will
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back me and you can back me and America together will defeat fascism. Might actually work to stop
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Trump? Because you got his base, you got Candace's base. I'll just say this. While I don't really
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think that's going to happen, I just find it interesting considering the major shift in tone
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from prominent conservative personalities who have abandoned Trump and Tucker, and now a leftist
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publication talking about his conversion. Huh. You know, maybe. You got Tulsi Gabbard, Carlson,
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Carlson-Gabbard presidential ticket? Is that what's going to happen? I don't know. I'll say
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this. I really don't think so. But in the event, two years from now, that's what's happening.
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You know, you heard it here first. Technically, one year from now, we'll start getting a primary
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season. And what if we start seeing an appeal from people like Candace? I'll tell you this.
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I know a bunch of liberal suburban women. They're middle of the road, not strong Democrat, and they
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love Candace. They love her. So what if this movement starts rallying Democrats to vote for
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a Tucker Gabbard ticket or something like this? You may say it's crazy because the progressives
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will never support it. The progressives have been getting removed. They've been losing. The squad
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members have lost their primaries. You are going to look at an opportunity for a moderate
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Democratic Party. With Tucker? Well, as we saw in the national interest,
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Tucker was a Democrat for years. Trump called him low IQ. So we'll see. I know just scandalous.
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