Redistricting wars take a miserable turn for Democrats
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen
Brian Tyler Cohen
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🗓️ 10 May 2026
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The redistricting wars take a miserable turn for Democrats. Brian interviews LA mayoral candidate Nithya Raman, NAACP general counsel Kristen Clarke, and candidates for the Georgia Supreme Court, Miracle Rankin and Jen Jordan
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| 0:00.0 | The redistricting wars take a miserable turn for Democrats, and I've got three interviews, |
| 0:05.6 | L.A.Maioral candidate Nithia Rahman, NAACP General Counsel, Kristen Clark, and candidates for |
| 0:10.8 | the Georgia Supreme Court, Miracle Rankin, and Jen Jordan. I'm Brian Tyler Cohen, and you're |
| 0:14.7 | listening to No Lie. Some daunting updates for the Democrats as these redistricting wars that were launched by Trump |
| 0:23.1 | continue to devolve. |
| 0:24.7 | Alabama is now moving to eliminate their existing 5 to 2 map and revert back to their |
| 0:29.6 | previously struck down 6 to 1 map, which packs all Democratic voters from Montgomery and |
| 0:35.1 | Birmingham into just one district. |
| 0:37.4 | This follows Tennessee successfully eliminating all Democratic districts by cracking Nashville and |
| 0:42.4 | Memphis. Louisiana goes from two Democratic seats down to one. South Carolina is now advancing |
| 0:47.9 | a map that eliminates the state's only Democratic seat. And of course, that's in addition to the |
| 0:52.5 | five additional Republican seats in Texas, |
| 0:55.1 | four in Florida, two in Ohio, one in North Carolina, and one in Missouri. I presume this trend |
| 1:01.0 | will continue with Republicans eventually eliminating almost all, if not all, Democratic districts |
| 1:06.0 | in states that they control. So here are a few hard truths. First, Republicans will not stop. They, to their credit, |
| 1:13.9 | engage in these long-term projects, whether it's Roe or the Voting Rights Act. They will fight to |
| 1:20.2 | eliminate these things for 50 or 60 years if they have to. And they did. And they were successful, |
| 1:25.9 | which means that Democrats will not be able to reason with these people. They will not be able to compromise with them. They they did. And they were successful, which means that Democrats will not be able to reason |
| 1:28.4 | with these people. They will not be able to compromise with them. They will gain nothing by conferring |
| 1:33.5 | goodwill to the other side. And the only thing worse than watching Republicans run roughshod over a |
| 1:38.1 | democracy is thinking that some misguided sense of compromise will ever change anything. |
| 1:43.9 | My second point, going tit for tat |
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