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Place. we'll see as they come back as senator schumer says, the first thing they consider is the new voting legislation. >> the suburban and urban populations, do you think you can find republicans that will end up supporting this fair district option here? >> i have been looking for republican partners in the redistricting process since january of 2017. arnold schwarzenegger stood up. i don't think we're going to find any republican help here. this is in their dna now. they don't have confidence in their ability to win fair elections or to win a fair redistricting process. they think they hav...

Below 60% for the first time we started taking the census in 1790. democrats feel like that's moving in their favor, the country is becoming less white and more urban. >> as you mentioned, some of the diversity, traditionally anyway, helps with democrats not always clear cut but democrats feel good about this. but combined what we hear from census data versus also the push for gerrymandering as we look towards the midterms and beyond. >> of course. certainly voters of color do not vote as a monolith but the states that are becoming less white are arizona, georgia, florida, texas. states that h...

Lift up the texas democrats. i mean, that is the kind of representation we need, that they would literally be able to put their -- they left their families for other a month, their jobs, their places. so i think we need to really recognize the sacrifice that they are making because they understand what is really at stake. so if the texas democrats can do it, what we're looking at in the senate right now, we have to have federal legislation. there should not be a recess. we are talking about the vote being under attack right now. and so we need to see the senate democrats pass right now using t...

Re-elections coming up and are facing really tough redistricting challenges, as well. and the redistricting process will start in the next few weeks in some states. they think that for the people hr 1 is something that is not going able to pass the senate. they've already tried that in the senate. it was blocked by republicans. so their idea is to do a scaled back voting rights legislation that focuses specifically on the voting access portions of the bill. such as things like same-day voter registration, 15 days of early voting, and taking out the other aspects of the bill like campaign finan...

In colorado, in utah. got one in missouri for the republicans then got it. republicans never say they are in favor of that. they understand they've got to keep their thumb on the scale. they have to have an ability to impact the redistricting process in an unfair way if they are going to hold on to the power that they got illegitimately in 2011. so yeah, independent commissions are, i think, the best way to go about the redistricting process, and that is a core part of the for the people act. >> what do you think about, i mean, do you have advice to state legislators controlled by democrats, b...