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Podcast. >> it is desantis and guys down in florida listening, talk to us. the map came out, this is 100% the war room and particularly all the great citizens in florida. >> 100% war room. what map is he talking about? brings us to an important story right now. you may not have heard much about it yet, that may be how the right wing wants it. this involves democratic congressman al lawson, bush appointed supreme court justice john roberts. this development matters. i'm going to take you right through it. ban none is talking about how florida governor ron desantis, who is eyeing a run to be the...

Issues. he broke with the conservative block in the case of limits of this kind of political trick, where politicians draw a map and use that map to then basically pick their own voters to deny you an effective say because they preordained it. and republicans specifically as i mention are trying to cancel out black voters who currently tend to vote in the aggregate for democrats. as the times column recently put it, new conservative voting rights order from the supreme court is so at odds with precedent that john roberts is feeling constrained to dissent. roberts has a pretty narrow view of fe...

Gerrymandering. >> we will not be signing any congressional map that has an unconstitutional gerrymander in it. and that's going to be the position that we stick to. so just take that to the bank. >> that was heading into the weekend. as for gerrymandering, the post explains republicans could win 20 out of 28 seats in a state trump won by just three percentage points. translation, you have all the voters voting, republicans win by 3%, but then control a 20% edge in the state seats or congressional seats. so this is why they call it gerrymandering. both parties have done it, but this is far mor...

Thought there was a gender gap. there isn't one. we thought women voted for democrats, men voted for republicans. we found black women overwhelmingly vote for democrats, it skewed the data made it seem like white women are not. desantis is clear about this. and because we are frozen at the number of 435, we froze that number in 1911 when the population was about 120 million, right now, we're about 330 million. as we reshuffle and move around the united states, different states gain and lose seats. new york lost a seat, florida gained a seat. this is why we see the reshuffling of districts ever...