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georgias secretary of state brad raffensperger who lost a child to fentanyl poisoning sounded the alarm. >> i want to really emphasize the seriousness of this. some people like to call fentanyl a drug. but its actually poison. it will kill you. it will kill you very quickly, very easily, and it is very dangerous. we lost our son five and a half years ago due to fentanyl overdose. we know how deadly this stuff is. it is very, very serious and we take it that way. anyone who holds electe...

That race by about two and a half points. the state voted for the democratic committee by about two and a half points. they almost got super majority in both houses, think about that gerrymandering. there were two -- >> but they didnt. >> the democratic governor -- >> the people of wisconsin came out and say, who do we want to govern this state? by two points, the people in wisconsin said that we would like the democrat to govern our state. when those votes were fed into the maps, the republican...

>> but they didnt. >> the democratic governor -- >> the people of wisconsin came out and say, who do we want to govern this state? by two points, the people in wisconsin said that we would like the democrat to govern our state. when those votes were fed into the maps, the republicans themselves had written, when its spat out was near super majorities in both the house and senate. for the republicans with the same votes that got tony evers elected by a slight margin. >> we have raised -- it is th...

Is all about. >> there -- there used to be legal challenges mounted to redistricting. what do you see thats -- thats left by way of possible-courtroom remedies to really horrible versions of gerrymandering? >> well, we have got a couple of venues, a couple of ways in which we can challenge gerrymandering. if there are racial gerrymanders, we can still bring cases in the federal courts and we have done so and been successful there, in virginia, for instance. if there -- if there partisan gerryman...

Will help encourage them or not. >> maybe black democrats or black voters came out for thad cochran in mississippi, moderate establishment republicans can secretly work to end the gerrymandering process. >> there are somewhere. >> maybe it is -- florida has a lot of them. >> if it happened in florida, it can happen anywhere. joan walsh, joy reid, thank you for your time. you can always catch the reid report, must see television, 2:00 p.m. weekdays, here on a little channel called msnbc. coming...

Amount of time in the sun and thats it. lets not forget michele bachmann won iowa, so if all this attention is put on iowa now, we saw what happened with her presidential ambitions. hes doing what is in his best interests. it seems that was his government strategy. shutdown strategy, get some attention off of it. but republicans have a lot of work to go ahead and fix their brand, no doubt. >> and in a way, nobody loves ted cruz more than the democrats, chris, because of what he has done to the r...

Gerrymandering process. i think the 2010 election in many ways was more important for the republicans, certainly these tea partiers, than the 2012 congressional elections. after 2010 on the census basis, they redistricted. >> the other factor we havent mentioned is social media. i think as we saw with ted cruz quoting tweets on the senate floor, you can come to believe that your position is much more thoroughly supported than it is because youve got easily 1,000 tweets to support it. those thous...

This seems to be what governors much of the republican caucus. >> youre going all college of cardinals on me with how the republicans thought about this. there was, judd -- obviously, eric cantor, hes waiting in the wings for something like that to happen. >> oh, absolutely. i think its important to sort of take a step back and talk about how we got here. really, this is the product of a years long effort to gerrymander the house of representatives, all the districts that most of these folk come...