Today on the Playbook podcast, the redistricting wars are never ending in South Carolina. Governor Henry

McMaster has called back state lawmakers for a special session that will focus on redistricting

before the midterms. How do voters feel about all these map redrawls?

Meanwhile, voters are being whiplash by redistricting,

but they are also thinking about their wallets and affordability,

especially when it comes to midterms.

One other problem besides gas, rising beef prices.

And President Trump has left China, but not without going to true social to declare that President

Xi Jinping told him that America is a declining nation all because of President Biden.

We'll get into that and more about the summit.

Hello, I'm Maya Ward.

And I'm Adam Wren, and it's Friday, May 15th.

We made it to another Friday, Adam.

We did, Maya. That was another wild week in the books.

For sure. You have some really interesting new polling today to kick us off on the redistricting wars, which are truly, as we said before, never ending. And I think that a big

question in all of this has been, how do voters feel about it? You know, how far should Republicans

take this? How far should Democrats go in their response? So what did you learn? Yeah, Maya, you know,

a lot of sort of good government politicians like to say that voters want to

pick their politicians, not politicians pick their voters. It's a popular talking point,

but based on our latest political poll, that's just not true. What we're finding is that both

Republicans and Democrats, Maya, want to see their own parties engage in this maximalist redistricting warfare that we're seeing playing out.

It's pretty surprising, but not when you sort of imagine the country as increasingly partisan, increasingly divided.

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