Breaking tonight, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is bending to Donald Trump's will.

He just called state lawmakers back for a special session on June 17th to redraw their congressional map to advantage Republicans for the 2028 election.

Meanwhile, in South Carolina, a handful of Republican state senators have at least temporarily derailed an effort to carve up the district held by the state's only Democratic and only black congressman Jim Clyburn.

This was Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey just yesterday.

If we're going to lose this radical idea of a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated

to the proposition that all men are created equal, if that's going to happen, Mr. President,

by God, it's not going to be because I surrendered it.

I'm voting no.

Geremandering forces you to convince yourself that the voters are going to behave the same

way they have in the past.

And what we have seen over the last few cycles is that voters, Democrat, Republican, and

independent are willing to try new things because of how terrible things are going in this country for them, especially low-income folks.

And so you can't draw things, expecting those voters to do the same things.

You can, but then what's going to happen in November may not be what you think.

And if you talk to experts on this, it's called dummymandering, where you cut up things so much that at the end of the day,

you have messed yourself up. And there are a lot of these Republican states have been gerrymandering for so long that that's where they're going to end up. You talked about Kemp at the beginning, Alicia. And I just want to read something from the AJC that I thought was really interesting. Kemp has ruled out changing the maps for this year's races. But Republicans are moving to act now while there are certain a GOP governor can sign the new districts into law.

Certain a GOP governor can sign the new districts into law that tells me that things in Georgia are looking well bluer than they did before, right?

Because otherwise they wouldn't be doing this, it seems.

I appreciate that reading of the tea leaves.

It also reinforces Simone what is at the foundation of this,

which is why it has been easier for Republicans to execute on some of this redistricting,

which is they just have a lot more places where they have the trifecta,

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