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But not throwing it out entirely

The National Republican Redistricting Trust argues that it's won the once-in-a-decade congressional redistricting faceoff between the two major political parties.

The judge said the map is unconstitutional because it breaks up a district where Black voters can choose their representatives.

Discrimination. political experts say if the new map goes into effect, it would probably lead to congressman lawsons loss. republicans had submitted a map which did not have this ploy in it. thats where bannon comes in. he may not be a huge promoter, but he did demand republicans draw more districts so trump would have won them easily. thats what desantis appears to be doing. it is more extreme than what as i said his own party was planning. now that youre caught up on all of this, desantis is d...

Deeper you get into it, the more weeds-y it can get. i mention john roberts to show how out of step florida is. your thoughts? >> it is a blatant overreach, ari, and it is really troubling and quite frightening. when you think about gerrymandering, remember there are two ways that republicans across the country are trying to disenfranchise democratic voters and specifically black voters. it is packing them all into one district or cracking up predominantly democratic district and disbursing vote...

Podcast. >> it is desantis and guys down in florida listening, talk to us. the map came out, this is 100% the war room and particularly all the great citizens in florida. >> 100% war room. what map is he talking about? brings us to an important story right now. you may not have heard much about it yet, that may be how the right wing wants it. this involves democratic congressman al lawson, bush appointed supreme court justice john roberts. this development matters. im going to take you right thr...

Issues. he broke with the conservative block in the case of limits of this kind of political trick, where politicians draw a map and use that map to then basically pick their own voters to deny you an effective say because they preordained it. and republicans specifically as i mention are trying to cancel out black voters who currently tend to vote in the aggregate for democrats. as the times column recently put it, new conservative voting rights order from the supreme court is so at odds with p...

Gerrymandering. >> we will not be signing any congressional map that has an unconstitutional gerrymander in it. and thats going to be the position that we stick to. so just take that to the bank. >> that was heading into the weekend. as for gerrymandering, the post explains republicans could win 20 out of 28 seats in a state trump won by just three percentage points. translation, you have all the voters voting, republicans win by 3%, but then control a 20% edge in the state seats or congressiona...

Thought there was a gender gap. there isnt one. we thought women voted for democrats, men voted for republicans. we found black women overwhelmingly vote for democrats, it skewed the data made it seem like white women are not. desantis is clear about this. and because we are frozen at the number of 435, we froze that number in 1911 when the population was about 120 million, right now, were about 330 million. as we reshuffle and move around the united states, different states gain and lose seats....