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It's Tuesday, October 21st, 2025 from Peachfish Productions.

It's the gist.

I'm Mike Peska.

Big redistricting news, not great news for the Democrats.

So right now, North Carolina, which you might know from such past presidential elections

as the last one and the last one before that as being a pretty close state, the last one, and the last one before that, as being a pretty close state,

also the one before that and the one before that,

pretty close Republican Democrat.

There's a Democratic governor.

I'm not saying that it's 50-50, but it's probably 52-48 Republican-the- Democrat.

So they have 14 congressional seats.

What should the breakdown be Republican to Democrat?

Ideally, 7 to 7.

All right, 8 to 6, I think the Democrats would take.

Well, right now, 10 of the state's 14 congressional seats are controlled by Republicans.

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