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The Daily Punch

How redistricting backfired on the GOP

The Daily Punch

Punchbowl News

Politics, Government, News

4.3707 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Redistricting failure is scrambling the GOP’s 2026 strategy. Jake breaks down how Texas, Indiana, Missouri and more became unexpected trouble spots for Republicans less than a year from the midterms. Plus: House Democrats notched big wins on Epstein and funding — then stumbled into their own internal mess. Watch this episode on YouTube here! Punchbowl News is on YouTube Subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠ to our channel today to see all the new ways ⁠we’re investing in video.⁠⁠⁠⁠ Want more in-depth daily coverage from Congress?⁠⁠⁠ ⁠Subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠ to our free Punchbowl News AM newsletter at punchbowl.news.⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Good morning, I'm Jake Sherman, welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punch Bowl News.

0:47.6

It is Wednesday, November 19th, 2025. Let's get into the mix here.

0:53.0

Are your Washington headlines of the day? Number one, how redistricting boomeranged on the GOP.

0:56.7

Number two, Democrats step all over their own wins.

1:03.3

And number three, House admin is marking up the Stock Act with an anvil above their head.

1:04.3

Let's get into it.

1:08.5

Well, well, well, Republicans and Donald Trump thought they had a winning midterm strategy, which is to basically redistrict the country.

1:11.2

And it would be a huge plus for the president.

1:14.5

And we've been, I would say, a time skeptical of the push for a million reasons.

1:19.2

Number one, because when you add Republican voters into one district, most of the time you take them away from another district.

1:25.5

Just generally speaking, when you put your

1:27.6

fate in someone else's hands whether it's a state legislature or a court it's not great and now

1:34.1

republicans are finding that out yesterday a federal judge in texas overturned a panel of federal

1:40.5

judges in a two to one ruling overturned the Texas congressional map and said

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