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It's Complicated

Redrawing the Lines: The Battle Over State Legislatures (with Jessica Post)

It's Complicated

Renato Mariotti

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Renato and Patti discussed how state legislative races will control which party redraws Congressional district maps, and which states are being targeted by Democrats this cycle.  They were joined by Jessica Post, President of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee. Subscribe on Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/@Its.Complicated/   Follow Asha on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_ Asha's Substack: https://asharangappa.substack.com/ Follow Renato on Twitter: https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti Follow Asha on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asha.rangappa/ Follow Renato on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/renato.mariotti/Follow Renato on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@renato.mariotti   Opening Theme and Bumper music provided by eitanepsteinmusic / Pond5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

M-S-S-W media.

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This year's election This year's election will determine who draws the lines for both congressional and state

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legislative districts. So what races decide who will draw those lines and

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how can you get involved? Let's get on topic. Welcome to On Topic, a weekly in-depth look at a topic that helps us understand the week's

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news. My name's Renato Mariati. I'm a former federal

0:46.0

prosecutor, a practicing lawyer, and a legal analyst. And I'm joined by my friend

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Patty Vasquez. The host my friend Patty Vasquez show who joins us regularly in this

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podcast. Before I bring in Patty I want to thank our patrons who brought us this

1:02.4

episode with special thanks to I want to thank our patrons who brought us this episode.

1:03.3

With special thanks to Michelle Dew, Andrew Donnelly,

1:07.9

James From Meyer, Jay Gellhausen,

1:11.3

Jamie Gordon, Patrick, Steve Hungsburg,

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Shano Wachinsky, and an anonymous patron.

1:19.0

You too can become a patron on our website on topic podcast.com. Just click the support

1:27.3

link at the top of the page. So Patty our last episode was a little unusual.

1:33.4

We were talking about how to get involved this election season.

1:36.3

It was really inspired by some of our patrons who are wanting to get more involved.

1:41.6

And it really had an impact. that was amazing to hear the stories or some of the people who listened to this episode who did get involved this election cycle already and this episode is kind of a follow-on from that because kind of a high-ranking official

1:57.7

in the Democratic Party reached out to me and was so intrigued by this that she wanted to reach out to our listeners about important

2:06.6

races that they could get involved in.

2:09.1

You know this is a really remarkable moment in our country's history on so many levels, right?

2:15.6

We obviously are in the middle of pandemic, we are witnessing the outcry for justice when

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