＂Time To STAND Down!＂ - Newsom THREATENS Trump Over Texas Redistricting SHOWDOWN
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Rob and Sarah talk about gerrymandering in Texas and what it means for the future of the country. They also talk about the new congressional map drawn by the Texas Senate and how it could impact the upcoming mid-terms.
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What is gerrymandering? What is redistricting? Why are people losing their minds in the state of Texas?
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You have the governor, state of Texas. What's his name? Governor Abbott. Greg Abbott.
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Goes out there and they announce that they're going to be redistricting.
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And they're going to, a lot of people, they're gerrymandering, they're redistricting.
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And then it goes to vote on the Senate seat, which I believe it's 31 senators, state senators in Texas that have to vote for it.
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They vote 19 to 2. Nine Democrats are not even there. They left.
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Many of them went to Illinois. Some of them went to Massachusetts. Some of them went to New York.
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They're complaining about what's going on in the state of Texas.
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By the way, it was their duty to appear and vote. It was their duty to appear and vote, and they didn't.
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So is that, like, meaning, is it an arrest? Oh, let me tell you what happened.
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So first of all, Governor Abbott. What would happen if the cops go on strike?
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Cops can't go on strike. These, your elected officials went on strike.
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One of the ladies even said this is, you know, Hochul called this, I mean, she went off saying things.
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One of the representatives even called this, you know, the Holocaust is what she called it.
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No, I'm not even, Jolanda Jones. Can you type in Jolanda, Jolanda Jones, Rob?
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Jolanda Jones called it a Holocaust. Is that Jolanda Jones?
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Okay, watch this one here. This is what she called it. Go ahead.
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And then integration happened, and everybody thought they accept us. They don't accept us.
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They are showing us who they are. We should believe them.
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And we better have the courage to stand up. Otherwise, we will fall for anything.
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And in this country, we will be defeated, deported. I mean, we will lose all of our rights.
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She's criticizing citizens of Texas that elected her.
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You got elected. They don't hate you. There's some number of them who elected you, woman.
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Jasmine Crockett is worried because one of the seats could potentially get her to lose her seat.
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And when they vote, it comes out that Texas Senate approves the new congressional map ordered, they say, by Trump.
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This is obviously not coming by Trump, but they're calling it order by Trump because a lot of people are saying they're doing this right before the midterms
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because they're worried Texas could go blue and may as well do it now before it's too late.
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So Texas Senate approved the new congressional boundaries on Tuesday with a vote of 19 to 2, aiming to secure five additional Republican seats in the House for the 2026 elections
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But House Democrats' absence from Austin has stalled the Texas House from approving the map for over a week.
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And then Senate Democrats labeled the map unconstitutional, but Senate Phil King argued no one has presented data or, frankly, any compelling case
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that this map violates any of the applicable laws as the Senate votes proceed.
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So let's talk about what's gerrymandering and redistricting.
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The way to look at it is if you go to, Rob, go to Illinois districts in 1950, okay?
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And if you just type in images and you go to it, yeah, go to the one on the top left, the first one that you have.
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And if you zoom in, this is the part that people are kind of, zoom, if you can, okay.
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The brown, it's pretty much, it's the same community.
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So these are Republicans and Democrats are all different?
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And each district has roughly the same number of people.
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That's why you have small ones in cities, big ones rural.
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This is the districts today, if you come to it.
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And if you can do me a favor, for Illinois, go to District 3.
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So what they do is they split it up to take things like, let's just say if that place
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And the representative in that area could end up being a Republican.
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They'll split it into different districts to have the Republicans be the minority of
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It's cut intentionally that way to hurt some of the folks that, like, imagine you cut
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a Republican county, a community in a certain way to hurt them.
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So now, while we're going through the history of gerrymandering and how this whole thing
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came about, this goes all the way back to 1800s.
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There was a governor, I think the governor of Massachusetts, his name was Elbridge Jerry.
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Rob, can you type in Elbridge Jerry, G-E-R-R-Y?
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So this guy is the first guy that understood what redistricting was, and he built a district
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He's the first guy that did it, and he was part of the Democratic-Republican party.
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Back in the days, it was a Democratic-Republican party.
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The name came from Jerry, and salamander, they called it gerrymandering.
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This is how the name came about from the 1800s.
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So it became a brilliant strategy for a lot of people to use, to hurt the opposing party,
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to eliminate competition, to be able to push whatever policies you want.
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And in a lot of cases, they say there's three reasons for it.
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Some of them, they do it because it's bipartisan.
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And some of them, they're like, look, whether you care for it or not, we're doing this anyway.
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Newsom responds at Trump yesterday, multiple times.
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I think, is this the clip about him talking about, but this is different, Rob.
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It's time to make another phone call to Greg Abbott.
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This time, instead of calling him and telling him you're, quote, unquote, entitled to five congressional seats,
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It's time to recognize that democracy is at risk.
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Actually, see how that feels for you, doing the right thing.
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If you don't, California will neutralize anything you do in the state of Texas.
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California will continue to punch above its weight.
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We believe in the enduring values of our founding fathers.
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He puts a second threat, which, Rob, if you can go.
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Fire is probably not the metaphor that Gavin Newsom wanted.
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So if you go to X right there, that's his last one.
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California governor demands Texas redistributing push threatens ballot measure.
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Now, before I go into anything else, I'm going to pause here.
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What are your thoughts with everything that's going on with redistricting and gerrymandering?
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I have a bunch of other thoughts on this, why this is so important.
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Well, welcome to the sausage making that is American politics.
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You have right now Gavin Newsom using it to step up and do a peer leadership, a peer presidential, and to do this to put himself in the spotlight.
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California Democrats were already moving, and Schiff was worried about it because of what was happening in San Diego and Orange County.
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And if we were to look at how San Diego and Orange County voted in the presidential election, you can see, and the central states, just get all of them.
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And the California district map, blue-red for the 2024 election.
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And you'll see, California was already on red alert because they're entitled – yeah, see, take a look at what was happening here.
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The entitlement that the Democrats felt in California was already under threat.
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No, Rob, go on that one right there, right there.
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Look at the last 20 – look at the last four years, Vinny.
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And so the Dems were already in red alert saying, what are we going to do about this?
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Because their concern was Orange County and San Diego going red.
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Their concern was like, wow, no, wait, wait, wait.
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We need to redistrict these because we can neutralize the 54 percent red by just moving it around, gerrymandering.
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And then Texas, you know, had its moment and everything, and that became very public as they ran off so that they didn't have to vote and everything, abdicating their responsibility.
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And now Gavin Newsom says, we will fight fire with fire.
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And I've already said that's the wrong thing he should be saying.
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But he's already getting ready to do, because of that, what he's already accusing the other side of doing.
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And in my view, this gets a little crazy because both sides can be accused of putting their thumb on the scale.
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There is no federal jurisdiction on gerrymandering.
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Like, Vinny, both states can do this forever, and the government has no say in it.
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Jerry figured it out, and others said, well, listen, if he can do it, I'm going to do it.
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So you essentially prevent the other side of winning your state in a long time.
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Like, it becomes mathematically impossible for you to win.
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And by the way, the Dems like to talk about threat to democracy.
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What about those areas and around air muffs that now feel underrepresented?
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So you have a community that 60% wants to elect somebody.
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But they are manipulated with other voters, so another 60% becomes 42%.
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And they just keep diluting it with ice from other areas.
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This is—so the bad part of gerrymandering is Texas has to do it to block what California
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is doing, and that is the order that it's happening.
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This was—California was already starting it because the California Dems, led by Schiff
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and Newsom, were like, hey, man, we got to do something.
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So redlining, gerrymandering, redistricting, this whole conversation is coming up.
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I think I remember learning about this like in eighth grade.
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So, Vinny, you've been sort of on the move on what's going on?
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Because the census, there's more people, more districts.
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So every 10 years, they do a census, and where they end up are in certain districts.
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So every congressman or congresswoman has their district, their quote-unquote neighborhood
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So gerrymandering—imagine we have a pizza party.
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I'm going to take the mushrooms off Tom's pizza.
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Rather than everybody getting a slice, redlining is like, certain people can't even get a slice.
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And then redistricting and everything that's going on here is basically throwing pepperoni,
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It's musical chairs with your votes, and everybody gets a seat in this world.
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Like, is there any way to change this legally, Pat?
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So I looked up to see how often you can gerrymander, how often you can redistrict.
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So when you get the census every 10 years, 2020, they give the new census.
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Some states, you can only gerrymander or redistrict once a decade.
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And it's a few states that you can do it only once every 10 years.
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Once you do it, it stays like that for 10 years.
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And bipartisan, both sides have to agree to it.
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Some states, you can do it as many times as you want, Vinny.
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There's no jurisdiction on how often you can do it.
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Again, there is no federal jurisdiction on this, of what can happen with it.
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Out of the 52 representatives, do you know how many of them are Democrats?
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He's threatening Newsom to take it from 17 to 8 is what he's threatening to do.
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Because imagine you got a Jasmine Crockett that may lose her job, which is what just happened right now.
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There may be a Republican representative that's got a lot of voice in California that's annoying to people like Newsom,
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who may also lose his or her job because of what Newsom could do.
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Then Pritzker goes on Kristen, what's her name?
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And Kristen Welker, as well as Stephen Colbert.
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Look, sticking on your state's map, every major group that grades the fairness of congressional maps
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gives your state an F, common cause and nonpartisan government watchdog,
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represents a nearly perfect model for everything that can go wrong with redistricting.
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And I guess the question is, you talk about preserving democracy.
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How do you preserve democracy if you're using the same tactics that you've criticized Texas Republicans for?
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But as I say, what they're talking about is a distraction.
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The reality is that the violation of people's voting rights is what Texas is attempting to do.
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That's what's wrong with their efforts right now.
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And the fact that the president of the United States knows it and nevertheless is asking them to do it.
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That is what's wrong with what we're seeing right now.
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And these Texas Democrats are standing up to what the GOP is at stake.
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This is J.B. Pritzker doing his Kamala Harris impersonation.
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Illinois is 84% Democrats, 16%, 15% Republicans.
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They have a monopoly on this conversation here.
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But some people on the Republican side also have monopolies.
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It's not like this is just a thing that's going on on the left.
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But this conversation is leading to Florida jumping in.
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And Florida says, look, if you guys are doing it, we may jump in as well.
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Now, Florida's saying, you know, a story comes out with Axios.
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Florida looks to join Trump's redistricting push.
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Rob, I don't know if you have this video or not.
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Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez announced last week he will create a select committee to consider drafting a new congressional map aligning with President Trump's call for a decade redistricting with Governor Ron DeSantis supporting the effort.
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Yes, this is DeSantis talking about the voter flop here in Florida since 2020.
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If you had to put a number on it, how many seats do you think Republicans might pick up if, in fact, there was fair redistricting?
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I don't know, because I think Florida, our Constitution limits, you know, you can't draw snake districts in Florida.
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They've got to be normal-shaped, compact districts, which I think is great.
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When I got elected governor in 2018, there were 300,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans.
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Today, there are 1.3 million more registered Republicans than Democrats.
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The state has grown by many millions of people.
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Got to give him credit on what he's done with that.
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So, Tom, I'll give you the final thoughts on this year before we move on to the next story.
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I think Florida's got a sensible Constitution that says let's not be ridiculous.
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And so I think either we need a federal control or we need the states to voluntarily do this.
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The home of political corruption, the OG of political corruption, has been Chicago and Illinois.
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If you just go look up the history of America and elections, Mayor Daley and the machine that was there and corruption,
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and it would represent upsetting the apple cart and just redrawing everything.
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But I think what people fail to see, the screaming blue states that are talking about this, Pat, are losing citizens.
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And they're going to lose representatives and they're going to lose electoral votes anyway.
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And so the people that are crying are the people that are losing citizens by their own policies.
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