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>> we're a closely and deeply divided country. yet on the day after election day 2016, republicans controlled not only the white house and all of washington but 69 of 99 state legislative chambers, a modern record of 33 governors, they had the trifectas, governor and both branchs of state legislature in 25 of 50 states. all of this has its roots in red map. >> barring a tsunami wave election, many of the districts will remain in the hands of the party that they were designed to be in the hands of for the whole of the decade. that's utterly remarkable and very anti-democratic. >> this is a chal...

A red map. the idea that red is assigned to republicans. we want red states, we want red maps. >> if democrats could wave a magic wand and undo the political work of one person in the last five years it would be the red map guy. >> we looked at the census report. pennsylvania, michigan, you will lose a congressional seat. florida, you are getting two, texas, you are getting four. georgia is getting one. south carolina is getting one. most of the great lake states were losing seats. ohio lost two. new york lost two. where a state is losing a seat or picking up a seat is where the map is going t...

A spotlight on the most important elections for redistricting. >> so democrats were a little asleep at the wheel in 2010. this cycle, they're not asleep. what you're starting to see is signs that this is going to be an all-out battle, almost an existential battle between the parties in the lead-up to redistricting in 2021. >> the strategy, as you know, is to make sure we have folks in the states to get the grassroots ready for the redistricting process in 2021. >> republicans' goal is to reserve their advantage in as many states as possible to replicate the success of red map from the last rou...

Some states lose population. if you gain a new congressional district, you have got to figure out how to draw the lines to accommodate that distrt. if you lose one or two as states often do, you have to draw the lines again. >> the state lenggislators draw the lines for congress. itakes a relatively obscure state office and makes it pretty important every ten years. to me, it represented an opportunity. so i approached the republican committee about the idea of let's launch a special project that was dedicated to raising y to put it into the state legislative races that would have the maximum ...

On the ground. we would give them money. if they were good partners, we would give them money. >> red map fundamentally redefines gerrymandering. it takes the oldest political trick in the book and reinvents it. no one had ever done it this way before. >> we had a huge night on state house and state senate front. in ohio, kasich won the governorship. in michigan, the governorship, state house and senate. in wisconsin, the governorship, state house and state senate. alabama, the state house and the state senate. 17 chambers so far that have switched hands from democratic to republican. that's g...