Rep. Brad Sherman Discusses Dems Fight Back against Trump

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🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on how Trump, MAGA Mike Johnson, and the Republicans are having a meltdown now that Democrats led by Governor Gavin Newsom are fighting back against their redistricting plans and Meiselas interviews Democratic Congressman Brad Sherman on the fight against Trump and MAGA. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	These MAGA Republican Congress members and politicians are crying now and blaming California
0:05.8	Governor Gavin Newsom for redistricting in California when it was Donald Trump who ordered
0:11.6	the MAGA Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, to do the redistricting right before
0:18.1	the midterms. You've got the MAGA Republican Congress member from California,
0:23.2	Kevin Kiley posting the following, we will not let Gavin Newsom destroyed democracy in California.
0:30.3	Then he went to the Wall Street Journal who Donald Trump is suing and did an op-ed saying,
0:35.6	in today's Wall Street Journal, I set out my plan to stop
0:39.2	Newsom's corrupt redistricting scheme and to assure it doesn't ignite a gerrymandering war across
0:45.8	the country.
0:46.5	I mean, these people just make stuff up.
0:48.7	Like, y'all started this in Texas.
0:50.1	The Democrats supported for the People's Act H. Act HR1 in order to ban this partisan
0:56.2	gerrymandering.
0:57.2	I mean, this Kevin Kyley guy, this Magu Republican congressman from California, what is he
1:03.1	even doing here?
1:04.1	He does like a press conference in his own office and brings the podium.
1:07.3	It looks so weird.
1:08.7	Then he's been going on all of these shows and whining. Let me show you
1:12.6	what he did here when he says, it's Newsom who started this. Newsom's trying to destroy my district
1:17.3	here. Play this clip. Wants me gone. This is nearly an attempt to eliminate political opposition,
1:22.5	but his past attempts to target me have failed, and I'm confident that this one's going to fail as well.
1:28.0	Yeah, I know that you recently introduced a bill to limit redistricting to the beginning of each
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