Back to episode — Episode 2943 CWSA 08/30/25
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e to take all of his policies and just put them in a Democrat and then have all the Democrats salute it because it's coming from a Democrat? And the answer is there might be an exception, but I feel like 100 percent of what Trump is doing or proposes doing, 100 percent of it, it feels like could have come from a Democrat not too long ago. I would say 100 percent of it could have come from Bill Cli…
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Missouri, according to Politico, Aaron Pelish is writing that Missouri is going to look into redistricting in a special session sort of like California is doing. If so they think they would pick up one GOP seat, but apparently we're not hearing much from other Democrat states. So we thought that there would be mutually assured destruction where every state would gerrymander until everything was ridiculous. Well it's already gerrymandered enough that it's ridiculous. But it looks like the Republicans may be willing to go all the way on this no matter what the Democrats do. So it looks like the Republicans are going to pick up a bunch even if the Democrats went hard at it. They have fewer states that aren't already gerrymandered. So the Republicans would come out ahead.
But I wonder if the other Democrat states are trying to lay low just to make sure that it doesn't become an all-out gerrymandering war, which they know they would lose. So it could be that even though people think that California will sort of match what happened in Texas, that if all they do is match it, maybe that's enough. Hey, just keep your head down. If we could get away with just matching it, that's our best case sc
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enario for a Democrat. But if we go out there and say we are Vermont, I don't know which states are in play, but go out there and say we're Vermont and we're going to join California in gerrymandering. Well all that's going to do is guarantee that every Republican state does it. I think every Republican state or most of them are going to do it just in case and just because they can. But if you're…
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