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Texas, which is meeting right now to kick off their redistricting process, and the early first draft of a map that came out over the weekend regarding the state senate and you can see the republicans are planning on playing hardball here. they drew a map that definitely helped their incumbents, probably would help them gain a few seats in the state senate where they already control it so in terms of voting legislation at the state level, it s going to keep coming in michigan. we still don t know what s going to happen in arizona following whatever the lease of the partisan election review led by cyber ninjas is going to come out so that could change and every state has to draw new lines and clearly that s at the top of mind of democrats in congress. there is nothing redeeming about the current sort of post-trump, trumpified republican party, but hardball is all that they play. i hope that s on the mind of democrats this week. jackie, basil smikle, nick, thank you so much for starting ....
Really going to be happy and the answer is probably not. were you surprised that he decided not to follow the role of say a liz cheney and try to fight it out with donald trump and try to win in november? no, because that have answer actually. to me that response was the most insightful thing that he said during the course of almost an hour-long conversation an it was insuing theful because, you know, he s basically saying this is not going to change, that tomorrow and the next day and next month and next year and certainly in 23 when i would come back, this is going to be a trumpified house gop caucus. i don t want to fight to come back and still be in a distinct minority of my party who think that this person isn t just unfit for the presidency but a malevolent force in american politics and that s the real reveal. watching that kinzinger clip that you just played coming in and talking to gonzalez, what you realize is over the course of the last nine months, since ....
So keep in mind that a lot of our politics flows downhill and not going to be confined to fox news. i think it s a very real chance that this is going to become orthodoxy in the trumpified republican party into the mid terms and so that just simply compounds the tragedy but also it s a real challenge to the biden administration, how much they lean into this knowing they ll get this republican blowback. charlie and kim are sticking around. when we come back, a supporter of the far right proud boys is now facing 15 years in prison for threatening the life of senator raphael warnock before and during the rise of january 6th. most reliable network. then we add the speed of verizon 5g. we provide security that s made for business and offer plans as low as $30 per line. ....
States is. now all of a sudden you have a republican party which has a philosophy that i call rule or ruin, either we re going to rule or we re just going to ruin the whole constitutional order. well, they re saying if we don t win the popular vote, we will recount until we win the popular vote. we will put the right people in place to count the right way. and if none of that works, we will get the state legislatures to sort of overthrow the popular vote and install the electors loyal to trump or whatever trumpified successor they anoint. if none of that works, then they will do it in congress by using, again, whatever weakness they can perceive in the electoral college structure. look, i have been an opponent of the electoral college for a long time. the very first bill i introduced as a state senator in maryland was the national popular vote interstate compact. we picked up tremendous momentum there. unfortunately, the republicans are blocking that, too. right. in the states, but ....
Facing american democracy today is what is happening in u.s. states and republican-led states. you know, one of the points of our book was democracies don t die at the hands of general anymore and military coups. democracies die at the ballot box and i think the biggest threat we face in 2022, if the republicans retake the house, which they very well might, you could very well imagine a 2024 election. no matter who the candidate is, that state legislatures across the country will throw the election to the house of representatives. and you have to remember, will a trumpified if the democrat even if the democrat has won? steve, has there been another point in american history where democracy was as threatened as it potentially is now? yeah. beyond the civil war, no. certainly, in no one s living memory, has not nixon, not roosevelt, not mccarthyism, ....