Back to the maps with SCOTUS, more Pete Hegseth, and a governor’s dilemma

The Playbook Podcast

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🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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The Supreme Court’s decision on the Voting Rights Act will be felt in election cycles but maybe not as early as November. Playbook’s Jack Blanchard and Megan Messerly discuss if this decision will work in the GOP favor to redraw voting maps now. Meanwhile, Pete Hegseth heads back to Capitol Hill to face the Senate, where Europe will be a big topic of conversation. And in Nevada, Republican Governor Joe Lombardo is running for re-election but President Trump is making it hard for him.

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0:28.9	Today on the Playbook podcast, the redistricting scramble part two, what the Voting Right
0:34.9	Act decision means for 2026. And Pete Heggzeth part 2, the Defence Secretary's back on the hill today, this time facing the Senate.
0:43.2	And we have the great Megyn Messley who's been hanging out with the governor of Nevada in a Starbucks in downtown Las Vegas.
0:51.0	Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard.
0:52.8	And I'm Megad Messerley. It's Thursday, April 30th.
0:58.2	Megan, we're going to come to Las Vegas Starbucks in a minute, although it sounds awesome.
1:03.1	I have been to Vegas.
1:04.2	I have not been to Starbucks in Vegas.
1:06.0	Yeah, it's a whole, whole different experience, you know, Starbucks and days.
1:11.1	I can only imagine. I want to get on to the voting right tax decision yesterday,
1:15.4	the far-reaching decision by the Supreme Court and the thing that is occupying the minds of so many
1:20.4	Republican and Democratic operatives today and for the foreseeable future. But before we get
1:24.9	on to that, I just want to say late breaking news coming out of
1:27.6	Congress last night. House Republicans were finally getting their DHS budget plan through the
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