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Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on partisan redistricting and the midterms

PBS News Hour - Segments

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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NPR's Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join Geoff Bennett to discuss the latest political news, including Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer leaving her post, partisan redistricting and the midterms and Democratic fundraising advantages. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

The U.S. Labor Secretary's resignation marks the third Trump cabinet departure in recent weeks.

0:05.8

To discuss that and more on redistricting and the midterms, we turn to our Politics Monday duo.

0:11.1

That's Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of NPR.

0:15.6

It's great to see you both, as always.

0:17.4

So the Labor Secretary, Lori Chavez-Dariemer, is stepping down from the Trump administration

0:21.6

to take a job in the private sector that's according to the White House Communications Director.

0:25.6

Tam, we know President Trump is willing to stand by embattled officials until he isn't.

0:31.6

What tends to be the tipping point?

0:33.6

Yeah, and this is the third embattled official that is now out. Remarkably,

0:41.1

normally this happens from a presidential post on Truth Social, his social media site.

0:46.3

In this case, it was just a post from the White House communications director. Trump didn't

0:51.5

even get his hands dirty on this one. It has varied each time, but there is

0:58.7

often a nexus that involves testimony on Capitol Hill or controversies that threaten to

1:07.1

break out and get out of control and unable to manage.

1:12.7

And so here we are.

1:14.9

You know, the other issue at play here is that if President Trump expects that Republicans

1:21.8

will have a narrower margin in the Senate after this year, then he may want to lock in new cabinet officials that he'll

1:30.4

be able to get confirmed. So now might be the time for this turnover. And often there is

1:35.9

a decent amount of turnover, depending on the administration, certainly the first Trump administration

1:41.0

had a ton. Typically that second year is a time of turnover.

1:45.5

All right.

1:45.7

Well, let's talk about redistricting.

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