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We're back with a republican power grab in texas as the gop hoipz to consolidate control with a new congressional map. the once a decade redistricting process is now complete, and opponents say the gerrymandered map shows why congress needs to pass new voting rights legislation. let's go to cnn's tom foreman at the magic wall to break it all down. tom, explain why democrats are sounding the alarm in texas. >> because they see this as a fundamental undercutting of democracy. take a look at what's happened here in texas under the republicans' control right now. over the past ten years, 95% of te...

Come back kid as opposed to the person being the front-runner going into 2020. why would republicans go on the record talking about how scared they are for 2020 -- >> so mitch mcconnell can give us one of those bugs bunny laughters he would get away with it again? >> yes, and look they have a president donald trump won't give the high sign, hey, run the race you need to run. in 2012 when barack obama was a bit -- donald trump doesn't have the political discipline to do that. and so that's the real challenge here for some republicans. >> yesterday a three judge panel in north carolina blocked t...

Democrats won big governorships. they will be overseeing redistricting for the next decade. the 2020 senate map looks just as brutal for republicans as the 2018 map looked for democrats. >> yes, so what we have to do is take last night and put it into context. so some good stuff and some bad stuff. in the gerrymandered map, we have ended one party rule with the gerrymander map. when we think about what kemp was doing in georgia of the 200,000 plus voters that separate adrabrams and kevin. we know 400,000 of them were purgeled. we seeing the ticks. voter suppression having its effects. what we ...

Mid-term. barack obama lost 13 seats and 63 seats i think in 2010. and then this president lost 6. you want to call that a miserable loss? you are so wrong. >> there were 350 republican losses around this country in the most gerrymandered map we have ever seen in the history of this country. for the democrats to pick up almost 40 seats and flip the house of representative as and only lose one or two seats in the senate in the worst map we would ever face. >> that was basically average. the fact is democrats severely under performed in an election where 88% of the nightly news coverage was nega...

Barack obama lost 13 seats and 63 seats i think in 2010. and then this president lost 6. you want to call that a miserable loss? you are so wrong. >> there were 350 republican losses around this country in the most gerrymandered map we have ever seen in the history of this country. for the democrats to pick up almost 40 seats and flip the house of representative as and only lose one or two seats in the senate in the worst map we would ever face. >> that was basically average. the fact is democrats severely under performed in an election where 88% of the nightly news coverage was negative towar...