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Committee, this group that he founded with president obama, they're fighting that battle. they're trying to fight back for democrats against what republicans so successfully pulled off with those new maps that they got drawn after 2010. the eric holder/barack obama group has pursued lawsuits in virginia and georgia and texas and north carolina and pennsylvania, to try to get states to un-gerrymander their maps. in january, north carolina's gerrymandered congressional map got ruled unconstitutional by a panel of federal judges who found that the maps were, quote, motivated by invidious partisan...

Group who are actually retiring and walking away, that number brings you down to 22, but that 22, by comparison, think back to one of the last major wave elections we had in a midterm, you had it there, 2010, barack obama's first midterm, democrats got shellacked. how many democrats fit into that category of pure retirements in 2010? it was 11. so, half the number we had now. go back to 2006, bush's second midterm. republicans got shellacked then, how many did you have? you had eight. so, if you want to find a comparable number to the number of pure core retirements that we're seeing right now...

>> and thereby the president of the united states singlehandily revived the vernacular use of the word "shellacking," for all of us. but president obama was right about a real hazard of early presidencies. the same thing did happen to ronald reagan and to bill clinton in the first midterms of their presidencies. in reagan's first midterm, republicans lost 26 seats in the house. >> ronald reagan was trying to be as upbeat as possible. still, it was a conciliatory president who met with reporters, one who talked about seeking bipartisan solutions with the new congress. >> there have been concess...

Time for this year's midterm elections in november. and that's just one part of the multi-pronged strategy that eric holder's group is working on this year. steve kornacki got the group's executive director to explain what that effort looks like now and what to expect next. >> so, when you look at the map, democrats trying to take, i think, 23 seats right now to get control of the house, where is gerrymandering, the gerrymandering you say republicans have done, where is that most prevalent on that sort of house battlefield right now? >> well, our job is to look at the map through the redistric...

The seats that are up and analyzing the increase in disposable income in those areas of the country where the seats are up, the donald j. trump tax cut. in the senate, it's a little different because the seats better up there, we will have to see what happens. senator corker as an example. but i still think they maintain their lead in the senate but they really do keep the house. by a reasonable margin. if you go to 2006, to use president obama's words, got shellacked. in this case i don't think that will happen because this is the first time where real money is entering the pockets of average...