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Strict voter i.d., gerrymandering that was finally struck down as being unconstitutional. and they are working on it again. >> in fact the playbook is interesting because they are a little different but all watching each other and trying to figure it out. malcolm pinata referred to it as artisanal voter suppression. everyone finds their own flavor. so you say shouldnt we make voting as secure as it can be? to explain to them that we dont have that problem to solve at the moment, this is search o...

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Houston, minneapolis, saint paul. ed: sure, karl, pardon me, what do you think is the answer? how do republicans deal with that and should they take solace in the fact that its up to -- we think, 53 in the senate? >> yeah, they should take solace in that. that is because we had a red map as i said many times during the course of the campaign. you can go back to 1914 and the first election in which we voted for senators by popular vote, not legislatures. and you will never find a map as favorable...

Democrats? >> well, i dont think democrats could be any more energized than they are. i think we have to look at how it influences individual districts where you have swing voters and true independents. that are in play here. and thats why i said that even if this is part of the presidents closing message to try and lock up some tight races and energize his base, i think that when you look at the two different maps were dealing with, a very pro-trump red map in the senate, kavanaugh did the tric...

>> were a closely and deeply divided country. yet on the day after election day 2016, republicans controlled not only the white house and all of washington but 69 of 99 state legislative chambers, a modern record of 33 governors, they had the trifectas, governor and both branchs of state legislature in 25 of 50 states. all of this has its roots in red map. >> barring a tsunami wave election, many of the districts will remain in the hands of the party that they were designed to be in the hands of...

A red map. the idea that red is assigned to republicans. we want red states, we want red maps. >> if democrats could wave a magic wand and undo the political work of one person in the last five years it would be the red map guy. >> we looked at the census report. pennsylvania, michigan, you will lose a congressional seat. florida, you are getting two, texas, you are getting four. georgia is getting one. south carolina is getting one. most of the great lake states were losing seats. ohio lost two...

A spotlight on the most important elections for redistricting. >> so democrats were a little asleep at the wheel in 2010. this cycle, theyre not asleep. what youre starting to see is signs that this is going to be an all-out battle, almost an existential battle between the parties in the lead-up to redistricting in 2021. >> the strategy, as you know, is to make sure we have folks in the states to get the grassroots ready for the redistricting process in 2021. >> republicans goal is to reserve th...

Some states lose population. if you gain a new congressional district, you have got to figure out how to draw the lines to accommodate that distrt. if you lose one or two as states often do, you have to draw the lines again. >> the state lenggislators draw the lines for congress. itakes a relatively obscure state office and makes it pretty important every ten years. to me, it represented an opportunity. so i approached the republican committee about the idea of lets launch a special project that...

On the ground. we would give them money. if they were good partners, we would give them money. >> red map fundamentally redefines gerrymandering. it takes the oldest political trick in the book and reinvents it. no one had ever done it this way before. >> we had a huge night on state house and state senate front. in ohio, kasich won the governorship. in michigan, the governorship, state house and senate. in wisconsin, the governorship, state house and state senate. alabama, the state house and t...