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Control for a long time. we also talk about these state restrictive voting laws. so if republicans control access to the ballot box as well as where the ballot box is leading you to because they control the district maps, theres a huge amount of control here. this is why democrats fought so hard for the for the people act because it tried to ban partisan gerrymandering. it had all of the baseline access to the ballot box provisions. i mean this was their sort of only plan to intervene in all of ...

Is the possibility of a red wave in 2022? does it matter that population growth was in typically left-leaning urban areas or could all of this gerrymandering and gop-backed voting restriction laws hinder that? >> you know, im looking for that red wave in 2022, but i think the real question is does it last the full decade. so the redistricting process is about ten years usually in most states, and that can have some really big influences. but weve seen in the past that this diversifying trend is ...

Lake County remains the second-most populous in the Hoosier State with 498,700 inhabitants, an increase of 2,695, or 0.5%, compared to 2010.

>> and so the population growth, latinos, african-americans, asians, constituencies, look at the last set of election polls, tend to be more democratic, sometimes in lopsided ways. all of that factors in. all 35 of these will be redrawn. it matters everywhere but matters more in the states that are losing and gaining. north carolina gains, florida gains, texas gains too, and colorado and montana and out into oregon, lets look at texas. heres what happened. republicans control the process. republ...

African-american population that had been displaced by katrina, they technically should have gotten three latino districts and one african-american district. but because the gop controlled the state legislature and the redistricting process in texas, what ended up happening was that the latino population garnered two. the white population garnered two. and the african-american population was left out cold. that is not a democracy. what we need to ensure, and that is one of the reasons why the fo...

Place. well see as they come back as senator schumer says, the first thing they consider is the new voting legislation. >> the suburban and urban populations, do you think you can find republicans that will end up supporting this fair district option here? >> i have been looking for republican partners in the redistricting process since january of 2017. arnold schwarzenegger stood up. i dont think were going to find any republican help here. this is in their dna now. they dont have confidence in...

Below 60% for the first time we started taking the census in 1790. democrats feel like thats moving in their favor, the country is becoming less white and more urban. >> as you mentioned, some of the diversity, traditionally anyway, helps with democrats not always clear cut but democrats feel good about this. but combined what we hear from census data versus also the push for gerrymandering as we look towards the midterms and beyond. >> of course. certainly voters of color do not vote as a monol...

Lift up the texas democrats. i mean, that is the kind of representation we need, that they would literally be able to put their -- they left their families for other a month, their jobs, their places. so i think we need to really recognize the sacrifice that they are making because they understand what is really at stake. so if the texas democrats can do it, what were looking at in the senate right now, we have to have federal legislation. there should not be a recess. we are talking about the v...

Re-elections coming up and are facing really tough redistricting challenges, as well. and the redistricting process will start in the next few weeks in some states. they think that for the people hr 1 is something that is not going able to pass the senate. theyve already tried that in the senate. it was blocked by republicans. so their idea is to do a scaled back voting rights legislation that focuses specifically on the voting access portions of the bill. such as things like same-day voter regi...

In colorado, in utah. got one in missouri for the republicans then got it. republicans never say they are in favor of that. they understand theyve got to keep their thumb on the scale. they have to have an ability to impact the redistricting process in an unfair way if they are going to hold on to the power that they got illegitimately in 2011. so yeah, independent commissions are, i think, the best way to go about the redistricting process, and that is a core part of the for the people act. >> ...