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Republicans today have a majority in nearly two-thirds of the country's state legislative chambers, thanks to a party plan dubbed REDMAP.

Battle of republican ideas, democratic ideas, liberal ideas, progressive and conservative ideas. if that is the case, if thats the contest that we have, i think democrats will do just fine. but what i do not want to have happen is a successful effort and then have democrats in 2021 do what republicans did in 2011. that is not what this project is all about. >> you feel like republicans kind of ran the table on this during the obama administration doing the red map project in 2010 and tilted the ...

They have been able to get in a very short period of time with no paid signature gathers that is on the ballot next year. if its on the ballot its going to pass. and again, i dont know what youve been doing since the election but in virginia a whole bunch of people turned their own lives upside down to do everything they could to try to bring about a democratic land slide in that exactic state in 2017. in virginia that worked as far as it goes. but the districts are so partisan there even that d...

Democrats will do just fine. but what i do not want to have happen is for this to be a successful effort and then have democrats in 2021 do what republicans did in 2011. that is not what this project is all about. >> so you feel like republicans kind of ran the table on this during the obama administration when they did their red map project in 2010, that set them up in a way that tilted the playing field. >> yeah. >> what you want is to tilt it back and fix the system? >> yeah. tilt it back but...

Good government. what i want to have is a sense that the lines be drawn in a fair way and make it a battle between republican ideas,have, democrats will do just fine. but what i do not want to have happen is for this to be a successful effort and then democrats in 2021 do what republicans did in 2011. that is not what this project is all about. >> you feel like republicans kind of ran the table on this during the obama administration when they did their red map project in 2010 and set them up in...

Failing. then in 2010, they even beat that. the 1994 midterm was a pick up of 54 seats. in 2010, the first term of the obama presidency, the republicans got 63 seats in the house. that is how john boehner became speaker. they had a huge year. that was nowhere near their biggest victory that year. the republican state leadership committee started a project they called the redistricting majority project, or red map for short. and for this red map project they started raising a lot of money. it was...

Biggest victory that year. the republican state leadership committee started a project they called the redistricting majority project, or red map for short. and for this red map project they started raising a lot of money. it was not formally affiliated with the republican national party. they were not strangers, but they were at arms length. so red map, separate from everything else the party was doing, publicly trying to do well. it was the job of red map to specifically try to win in the stat...