Gerrymandering, the Midterms, and Immigrant Ingratitude
The Victor Davis Hanson Show
Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler
4.9 • 7.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Join Victor Davis Hanson and host Sami Winc as the uproar caused by the gerrymandering in Texas, the ingratitude of recent immigrant cohorts, the upcoming midterms and the inversion of ideology of North and South, Trump's threat to federalize DC, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Victor Davis Hanson show. This is our Friday News Roundup, so we're going to look at some of the stories from the week, and we've got lots on the agenda. |
| 0:12.8 | Gerrymandering or claims of gerrymandering in the state of Texas has started a ruckus. We have a Illinois representative who is more proud of being Guatemalan |
| 0:24.2 | than she is American. And then we'll take a look at Gaza. So stay with us for those stories. |
| 0:30.9 | And we'll be right back from these messages. |
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| 0:58.8 | Welcome back to the Victor Davis Hansen show for everybody who's new. |
| 1:02.4 | Victor is the Martin and Ily Anderson Senior Fellow in Military History and Classics |
| 1:06.0 | at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marsha Busky, distinguished fellow in history at Hillsdale College. |
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| 1:33.7 | And we'd love to have everybody. |
| 1:35.0 | So, Victor, the big controversy this week seems to be that in Texas, in particular, |
| 1:41.6 | the Democrats are claiming that the Republicans are trying to gerrymander the districts, |
| 1:48.8 | and so they've up and left the state entirely so they can prevent a quorum in their assembly |
| 1:55.3 | to even have a vote on new districting that the Republicans want to do. And the Republicans have sent out |
| 2:02.9 | arrest warrants and Trump has not ruled out, as he often says, bringing in the FBI. And so I was |
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