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Might try to find some middle ground if they do in fact end up embracing this theory, jake? >> jessica schneider, thank you. joining us to discuss is josh stein the attorney general. youre in charge of elections in north carolina. can you give us some examples how if the court ultimately rules in favor of letting republican legislatures, lets say hypothetically but state legislatures take over, elections in north carolina could change? like whats the real risk here? whats the worst-case scenario...

Know, the governor took down five, six, the governors under performance because she didnt talk about crime, took down five or six house member seats that are democrats, if you talk to those democrats. dont scream at me. talk to the democrats who lost theyll tell you thats the case. and yet, what are they talking about, hunter bidens laptop. sub level, you know, administration officials. its just -- i mean, if youre a republican, if youre conservative, its really depressing. >> democrats in new y...

The republicans thanks to redistricting and held by the strong campaigns of governor for understand this in fact i say the campaign even though he didnt win is the biggest highlight. cut that lead from 20 points as a remarkable achievement. dont forget california may be republican see to put the gop over the top of house control. and an important lesson there over a decade ago. movement to replace the system the partisan gerrymandering of the independent redistricting process. of course its a co...

The republicans thanks to redistricting and held by the strong campaigns of governor for understand this in fact i say the campaign even though he didnt win is the biggest highlight. cut that lead from 20 points as a remarkable achievement. dont forget california may be republican see to put the gop over the top of house control. and an important lesson there over a decade ago. movement to replace the system the partisan gerrymandering of the independent redistricting process. of course its a co...

The republicans thanks to redistricting and held by the strong campaigns of governor for understand this in fact i say the campaign even though he didnt win is the biggest highlight. cut that lead from 20 points as a remarkable achievement. dont forget california may be republican see to put the gop over the top of house control. and an important lesson there over a decade ago. movement to replace the system the partisan gerrymandering of the independent redistricting process. of course its a co...

District. the lines were redrawn a little bit in the redistricting process of california. can calvert, the long serving republican, a little bit less than half of the vote is in. this would be a significant upset for democrats if rollins, your candidate, was able to finish ahead of calvert. but it may be essential offset for democrats if theyre actually gonna land at 218 seats. the 22nd district is actually this one, is a one that has frustrated democrats for a long time. its heavily provided in...

The 2:18? where should you be looking for those? we should be looking to a district like this. the 22nd district. this is set of california. the central valley, david valley dale. he lost a seat in 2018, he got it back in 2020, about a third of the vote is in right now. hes ahead of his democratic challenger but theres a lot of vote to be counted still. and you see in california these late kind of wide swings as this weeks long process sometimes the vote comes. and this is the kind of place wher...

It made a little bit more democratic in the redistricting process. these are the kind of prices where democrats would have to pull off upsets, get a couple of those, when some of the others that we were showing you, and they could get up to 218 seats. the irony of all of this, alex, is if they do end up falling just short, lets say they get 215, that would be three seats short, where is the most damage done to democrats? in new york state. in new york state earlier this year, democrats, we have ...

Supposed red wave in a gerrymandered districts that you are able to pull off this victory. >> well look. the district absolutely looks different. and i know that we have talked about the redistricting process that happened in kansas before, but look, im somebody you never take anything for granted. and i ran a race that i think reflects that. and i will say that, i did not expect the margin that we saw, but i think a number of things contributed to that win. and i think its because people apprec...

Says about tuesday night and whats the big takeaway for you? >> i think especially in new york, as ive said many times, this was the first time in our nations history that democrats controlled everything in washington, albany and new york city. and voters in new york especially were looking for balance and common sense restored to every level of government. i think what we saw by picking up four congressional seats and now sending 11 members of congress to washington speaks volumes to that. and,...