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He is a former member of Congress from Texas, and he ran for Senate last year against Ted Cruz,

and he is running for Senate again, this time for John Cornyn's seat.

And he's also a former linebacker for the Tennessee Titans.

Thank you for being here.

Thanks, Lauren. I appreciate it. Yeah, yeah. So I want to start off with this redistricting

shit show that's happening in Texas right now. And I would I just want to get your like really

honest like candid assessment of where things go from here because from my perspective, you know,

Democrats have obviously fled the state. They're trying to deny a quorum. This is a tactic that

they've used in the past. And understandably, people always crack. Like, it's really hard to

sort of make this work long term. So for my, for my view, like, I don't know how this ends.

It just seems really hard. There's only so many tools that Democrats have. So give me your

honest assessment of like where this is headed and is it just ultimately probably going to

end and new maps being drawn. Well, maybe. And, you know, just to give you a little background from me, before I was in Congress,

after I played in the NFL, I was a voting rights lawyer, and I dealt with issues like this.

And so I say maybe because no matter what happens at the legislative level, this is going to be

challenged in court. And the one, you know, safe harbor that we do still have

in voting rights law when it comes to redistricting is that you cannot do racial gerrymanders.

And this is, in my opinion, and I'm a little bit of an expert, this is a clear cut racial

gerrymander that will discriminate against black and brown

voters in Texas. The districts they're targeting are all majority minority. Many of the actual

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