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Control for a long time. we also talk about these state restrictive voting laws. so if republicans control access to the ballot box as well as where the ballot box is leading you to because they control the district maps, there's a huge amount of control here. this is why democrats fought so hard for the for the people act because it tried to ban partisan gerrymandering. it had all of the baseline access to the ballot box provisions. i mean this was their sort of only plan to intervene in all of these bills. one of the reasons democrats have controlled so little of the process, 75 seats compar...

Is the possibility of a red wave in 2022? does it matter that population growth was in typically left-leaning urban areas or could all of this gerrymandering and gop-backed voting restriction laws hinder that? >> you know, i'm looking for that red wave in 2022, but i think the real question is does it last the full decade. so the redistricting process is about ten years usually in most states, and that can have some really big influences. but we've seen in the past that this diversifying trend is incredibly multi-racial, metro area america that we've seen born out in the most recent census is ...

Lake County remains the second-most populous in the Hoosier State with 498,700 inhabitants, an increase of 2,695, or 0.5%, compared to 2010.

>> and so the population growth, latinos, african-americans, asians, constituencies, look at the last set of election polls, tend to be more democratic, sometimes in lopsided ways. all of that factors in. all 35 of these will be redrawn. it matters everywhere but matters more in the states that are losing and gaining. north carolina gains, florida gains, texas gains too, and colorado and montana and out into oregon, let's look at texas. here's what happened. republicans control the process. republicans get to redraw the map. however, the population growth is hispanics, asians, and smaller grow...

African-american population that had been displaced by katrina, they technically should have gotten three latino districts and one african-american district. but because the gop controlled the state legislature and the redistricting process in texas, what ended up happening was that the latino population garnered two. the white population garnered two. and the african-american population was left out cold. that is not a democracy. what we need to ensure, and that is one of the reasons why the for the people act is so important, is that we need to ensure that every single state is playing by th...