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The John Kobylt Show

Redistricting Drama (08/05)

The John Kobylt Show

Premiere Networks

News

4.3800 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (08/05) - Jim Ryan comes on the show to talk about the redistricting drama in Texas. Gov. Newsom wants to redistrict parts of California in retaliation to Texas. Teens are turning to AI for emotional support. Has the mansion tax worked? 

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:04.8

KFI AM-640.

0:06.5

You're listening to the John Cobalt podcast on the I-Hart Radio app.

0:10.8

You know the routine.

0:12.5

We're on every day from 1 until 4 o'clock.

0:14.9

And after 4 o'clock, whatever you missed, you go to the podcast,

0:18.9

John Cobalt Show on demand, like millions have done

0:21.4

already this year. And they don't miss anything. See, they listen to it either way. Radio or

0:27.3

podcast, same show. We're going to jump right in in just a moment, Jim Ryan, ABC News correspondent

0:34.6

out of Dallas, because this is really an entertaining circus.

0:39.4

Now, normally I don't really give a crap as to a redistricting battle for congressional seats in Texas,

0:47.9

right? It's not my top 100 or top 1,000. But Gavin Newsom has stuck his beak into this mess.

0:57.1

And now he wants to redraw the districts in California.

1:01.6

And to the point, and we'll talk about this later after Jim, let's say Trump got about

1:07.2

38% of the vote.

1:09.0

All right, so let's just rounded off to make this easy.

1:10.9

It's 40% of the people in the state will vote Republican.

1:14.6

Under Newsom's plan, potentially, you'll have 4% representation in Congress.

1:23.2

Because they're looking at a map that could go Democratic here, 49 to 2.

1:30.0

If we redraw the districts, the way Newsom wants to, it'll be 49 Democrats, two Republicans,

1:37.3

among the Congress people, going from California to Washington.

1:41.4

So Republicans will end up with 4% representation in Congress with 40% of the vote.

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