Republicans fall in line in redistricting cold war
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen
Brian Tyler Cohen
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🗓️ 24 August 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Indiana Republicans seem poised to redraw their maps next to prove their allegiance to Trump. Brian interviews Governor JB Pritzker about Illinois’ map; Congressman Robert Garcia about the release of the first tranche of Epstein files; Tommy Vietor about the Trump-Newsom feud; and data-driven journalist Elliott Morris about Trump hitting a new low in his polling.
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| 0:00.0 | Indiana Republicans now seem poised to redraw their maps next to prove their allegiance to Trump. |
| 0:06.1 | And I've got four interviews. I speak with Governor J.B. Pritzker about Illinois's map. |
| 0:10.1 | Congressman Robert Garcia about the release of the first tranche of the Epstein files. |
| 0:13.7 | Tommy Vitor about the Trump Newsom feud. |
| 0:15.8 | And data-driven journalist Elliot Morris about Trump hitting a new low in his polling. |
| 0:19.7 | I'm Brian Tyler Cohen, and you're listening to No Lie. Every single Republican lawmaker in Indiana has now endorsed |
| 0:28.0 | the idea of a mid-cycle map redraw. This is a state that Trump won by about 17 points in the last |
| 0:33.1 | election, where Republicans already control 82% of the seats. that's nine out of the 11 seats in the |
| 0:38.9 | congressional delegation. I have little doubt that a redrawn map would mean that Republicans |
| 0:43.0 | would control all 11 seats, giving them 100% representation in a state that Trump won with 58% |
| 0:49.1 | of the vote. And of course, Missouri and Florida are likely not far behind. Remember, it's only |
| 0:54.0 | August of 2025, and so Republicans still have plenty of time to redraw |
| 0:57.8 | maps and time for ballots to be printed, likely sometime in December or January. |
| 1:02.9 | And look, I can sit here and rail against the Republicans. |
| 1:06.5 | I can say that they've given up on democracy, that they've given up on the Constitution, |
| 1:10.4 | that they know they can't win with their agenda moving forward, and so they have to cheat instead. But I think we've all come to the realization that we're not going to be able to shame Republicans into doing the right thing. Like, their superpower, to their credit, is that they can't be shamed. So if our strategy here is to appeal to their sense of shame, we're wasting our breath. |
| 1:29.2 | That doesn't mean that we shouldn't expose what they're doing and yell it from the rooftops, |
| 1:32.5 | but our strategy here to combat it has to go further. |
| 1:36.0 | And in California, obviously, it has. |
| 1:38.1 | To the California Democrats and Gavin Newsom's great credit, they're backing up their words with action. |
| 1:43.3 | They recognized a problem, |
| 1:44.7 | happened in Texas, threw together a solution in weeks, and they got it done. |
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