[Music] Welcome back. The Texas redistricting battle has teed off a massive nationwide fight now facing Supreme Court scrutiny. Justice Alto temporarily pausing a lower court ruling which saw a panel of federal judges bar the Texas GOP's new congressional map.The lower court judges ordered the state to use the existing districts drawn in 2021. While that newly drawn map could give Republicans five extra seats, the Supreme Court has now asked the challengers of the new maps to file their responses by 5:00 p. ...

Trump’s push to protect his party’s House majority through gerrymandering is now at risk of costing the GOP seats, rather than producing a net gain https://t.co/udJ3oUizog ...

EVERYWHERE. >> THIS WHOLE NOTION THAT REPUBLICANS WERE GOING TO BE ABLE TO GERRYMANDER THEIR WAY INTO RIGGING THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS AND DEMOCRATS IN THE HOUSE WERE JUST GOING TO UNILATERALLY DISARM, ROLL OVER AND PLAY DEAD WAS A FANTASY. AND I TOLD THAT TO MIKE JOHNSON MONTHS AGO DIRECTLY.THIS IS NOT GOING TO END WELL FOR YOU. THEY STARTED THIS REDISTRICTING FIGHT. WE WILL END IT.>> WELCOME BACK. THAT WAS HOUSE MINORITY LEADER HAKEEM JEFFRIES TODAY AS THE REDISTRICTING BATTLE HEATS UP AND COMES AFTER REPUBL ...

We are following some breaking news and a setback for Republicans redistricting efforts in Texas. A federal court today blocking Texas from using a new congressional map that was at the heart of a national reckoning on the issue of redistricting after the president urged that state to redraw its districts to give Republicans more seats in next year's midterms. That of course prompted California Democrats to retaliate by redrawing their districts.the court ordering Texas to use its old map which was passed i ...

President Donald Trump is looking to get even with California after Gavin Newsome, the governor, put off a major win on Prop 50, even though the ballot measure won by an overwhelming majority. Trump's DOJ just joined a Republican lawsuit aimed at blocking those new maps. Yeah, this is a fight they started.So, let me explain. Prop 50 redraws district lines in California that could allow Dems to pick up five plus seats in next year's midterms. Newsome sought out the ballot measure after Trump's aggressive red ...

Can you imagine being so weak in the presidential posture that you would be able to step forward and say publicly, I can't win. Right? That's what we're seeing right now out of this president. He's saying, "I need to jerrymander to win. " He's calling up Greg Abbott and saying, "I need you to jerrymander your state as much as possible. My ideas are failing.My economy is a disaster, and I need you to cheat as hard as you can. " He's having JD Vance fly back and forth from the Indianapolis airport like it's a ...

And happy Wednesday. It's 4 o'clock in New York. A clean sweep. Happy clean sweep. Millions of Americans from sea to shining sea delivering a crystal clear and decisive blow and rebuke to Donald J. Trump. electing Democrats in multiple statewide races by blowout margins in some cases and approving a ballot measure that puts Democrats in the driver's seat and in position to potentially retake the House in the 2026 midterms despite Republican efforts to gerrymander the congressional maps. Voters in California ...

California voters approved a congressional map with five new districts favoring Democrats on Tuesday night, the party’s first official attempt to balance the scales with Republican gerrymandering in states across the country ahead of next year’s midterm elections.Read more: https://t.co/zlYWIeMeSJ ...

I'm in Los Angeles covering Proposition 50. There's been a very large turnout here in LA and and throughout the state of California, even though there's already been vote by mail, and this is the measure that would um basically gerrymander five Republican House seats into five likely Democratic ones to match what Texas has done. >> I voted no on Prop 50.>> Okay. And just tell me your reasoning. What was your thinking on that.Well, I'm I'm a person that works in probably logic and when you have 43% of the st ...

[Music] Do you remember earlier this year when the world's richest man, Elon Musk, tried to buy himself an election in Wisconsin. Maybe you tried to block it out. I get it.But back in March, Musted a cheese head and held a massive rally in Green Bay, a rally at which he announced he would be giving out two $1 million checks to random attendees. That was just two of the more than $20 million Musk and the groups he supports spent in that race. It wasn't the kind of race that normally attracts a ton of attenti ...