00:00Thank you. You mentioned you thought redistricting was going to backfire on Republicans. I'm curious why you think that, and more broadly, is there a concern that if district lines are constantly changing around the country that it might discourage people from running for Congress if they know that this is just so much instability?
00:18We need one national redistricting standard to prevent the type of toxic shenanigans that Donald Trump and Republicans are engaging in by trying to gerrymander congressional maps in the middle of the decade to try to rig the midterm elections.
00:41That's a Democratic position, and it has always been that. The problem, of course, is that we have Republicans who are trying to play by a different set of rules.
00:53And the Democratic position has been we will not play by a different set of rules. We will continue to forcefully, aggressively, and immediately respond, just as we did in California.
01:09Republicans were apparently operating under the misguided notion that we were going to let them get away with trying to rig the midterm elections without a forceful response.
01:24Because they were badly mistaken. And at the end of the day, it's not going to work out well for them.
01:32And they will not be able to mathematically rig the midterm elections, which is what their original intention was when this process started.
01:44House Republicans know they can't mathematically get to an outcome that will stop us from taking back the majority.
01:54We know it. The only person who doesn't seem to know it yet is Donald Trump.
01:58When you say backfrize, are you talking about a voter backlash or just the Democratic response in the states of California?
02:04Both. There is a clear voter backlash. Even in Texas, this effort is unpopular.
02:11And by the way, Republicans took a gerrymandered map in Texas that already violated the Voting Rights Act, and they made it worse.
02:24And so what they've done is strengthen our case that the Texas congressional map violates both the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution
02:39and Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and we look forward to the court hearing that is going to take place next month.
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