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Is there something the federal government could do to stop this? >> actually joy in the freedom to vote act there is a ban on partisan gerrymandering. there is an explicit ban on party gerrymandering, a strong one that said if you jerry manderred before and this act is passed, it does not matter. you cannot seek a delegation put in place as a result of partisan gerrymandering. thats one more reason why the freedom to vote act has to be passed. its one more reasons why democrats have to really sa...

Donald trump did. she did better in the popular vote. so you can argue she delivered, but the house democrats didnt. >> well, you could also argue, wolf, the reason she was successful to that degree, and we did not -- even though we improved our numbers, we did better, we have to confront a jerry manderred map around the country and where a more proportional redirecting would have had a very different result. thats a hurdle we have in the house that you dont have at the top of the ticket. but ou...

Districts and primaries. republicans have lost three out of four of the past national elections and in the generic polls they have been down every single week for the last year except after the health care rollout train wreck. so this reflects a growing recognition that the extremism, while its played well for their parochial primary political purposes, its not selling at a national level. so this is a significant shift in terms of the extremist win of the republican party. >> you mentioned the ...

Like this but i think there is definitely momentum for this, something big happening before any other issue. >> nia, mark brings up the point of the 2016 elections and there is a breakdown of how important the latino vote is to house republicans, and numbers are not great if you are looking for a broad support for immigration reform. 84% of house republicans represent districts that are 20% or less hispanic. mark outlines this has to get done soon. if they wait too long and there is the worry ab...

Republicans become much less likely to vote for something like this but i think there is definitely momentum for this, something big happening before any other issue. >> nia, mark brings up the point of the 2016 elections and there is a breakdown of how important the latino vote is to house republicans, and numbers are not great if you are looking for a broad support for immigration reform. 84% of house republicans represent districts that are 20% or less hispanic. mark outlines this has to get ...

Enemy if this drags out too long, republican primaries in mid term can be killer to this issue. thats when the base and grassroots gets vocal and republicans become much less likely to vote for something like this but i think there is definitely momentum for this, something big happening before any other issue. >> nia, mark brings up the point of the 2016 elections and there is a breakdown of how important the latino vote is to house republicans, and numbers are not great if you are looking for ...