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Fivethirtyeight is giving the republican party a 68% chance of losing control of the united states senate this year. so that is just one of the problems that it appears the donald trump candidacy has created for the republican party. here's another new one that i think nobody's been talking about thus far at the national level but this could be really important. today the national conference of state legislatures said that they're watching for party control to potentially flip this year in 11 state senates and in 7 state assemblies. in the vast majority of those they expect to flip they are re...

It was the job of red map to specifically try to win in the states. and to get more specific than that, their plan, what they were designed to do, was to flip as many state legislatures as possible from democratic control to republican control. from blue to red. state legislatures, state houses, state senates. after the census is done every ten years, state legislatures get to redraw election districts both for themselves, like for state senate seats, but also for congressional districts. anybody with good voter data and free reign can redraw the maps. to 2010 was a key year to try to take con...

Biggest victory that year. the republican state leadership committee started a project they called the redistricting majority project, or red map for short. and for this red map project they started raising a lot of money. it was not formally affiliated with the republican national party. they were not strangers, but they were at arms length. so red map, separate from everything else the party was doing, publicly trying to do well. it was the job of red map to specifically try to win in the states. and to get more specific than that, their plan what they were designed to do was to flip as many...

Control of some state senates. the big one might be here in the swing staet of virginia but also a special election in iowa. >> virginia is a big one because everybody is on the ballot and there are some key swing districts. one in northern virginia. republicans feel like they might be able to take that state senate back. it could give us a kwlu about the nation's mood in this very important battleground state. there is also a special election going on for the state senate in iowa. another battleground. we're talking ohio, iowa and virginia tonight. >> all three elections i always like to thro...

Drug abuse which are the most predictive of violent behavior. now, members of congress hopefully will be motivated by this as will people in the state houses and state senates to look carefully at their mental health systems and their involuntary commitment system laws and make some determinations do we need to do some things so that these things can be prevented in the future. >> congresswoman, to be totally honest here, there's no more money in the budget, and i find impossible the notion that state houses who have cut billions nationwide out of services for the mentally ill or that the fede...