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i hope this doesn t turn into the fyre festival of redistricting. then we ll really have a problem. jane, what about ha? it s normal after a presidential election for the control of congress to sway. that happens very often. i wonder how likely that is based on the light of redistricting and republicans control 164 redistricting efforts this time around. but that s down from ten years ago. most of the commissions today are independent commissions. as you can see back in 2011 there were only 8 of them. now slightly a plurality of them are independent rather than republican. jane, how does that impact the potential for a red wave in 2022? you know, i think republicans still control quite a lot. you can see on the screen. they re going to control a lot more of this than democrats n. no small part because democratic voters have embraced these independent commission, put their map-drawing process in the hands of independent commissions, at least in some ....
So in the next few weeks, states will draw the maps that could determine the control of congress for the next decade. joining us now to discuss it our nbc digital reporter a jane tinn and brian lee from the democracy program. jane, let me start with you. we got this information this week about which states would be gaining and losing seats. walk us how the new do you that plays into the redistricting effort and ba we can expect to see in the weeks to come in. well, the new data shows us largely what we knew, america is more diverse. it s moving into metro area. the data showed how much metro areas are growing. we know we are seeing the multiracial america. which is worrisome for a lot of people because at least in the south, that involves a lot of partisan gerrymandering and racial gerrymandering. whether that s the intention or not to gerrymander in the south is arguably to move minorities ....
Administration tried to influence the way people count the immigration status. do we consider these results to be reliable again this year before we go? the census officials say as reliable as we get. they are proud of these numbers. we know that citizenship question definitely scared a lot of hispanic recruiters away from filling out the census forms. at the end of the day, this is the only count, we get this decade. so. that s what we got. we ll have to go with who we got then, hope we don t end up in the fyre festival of census counts. michael lee, jane tinn. thank you. up next, president biden is sending more u.s. troops to kabul. we are keeping an eye out for developments as the taliban fight for control of afghanistan. plus, texas is struggling to manage a surge in covid hospitalizations. multiple reports points to another ban, a respiratory virus rsv. an emergency physician from ....
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