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🗓️ 8 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | President Trump is starting to face some pushback on several fronts, including from within his own party. |
| 0:06.0 | To discuss that and more, we turn now to the analysis of our Politics Monday duo. |
| 0:10.0 | That is Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of NPR. |
| 0:15.0 | Great to see you both. |
| 0:16.0 | Good to be here. |
| 0:17.0 | So let's talk about Liz Landers reporting earlier on that push Republicans are making |
| 0:21.0 | in Indiana for redistricting. |
| 0:22.6 | Tam, as you well know, the president's been very vocal about it. |
| 0:25.6 | He's basically strong-armed this effort, threatened political retribution. |
| 0:29.6 | But as Liz reported, Republicans there had already been sure that they have the votes. |
| 0:32.6 | So what's at stake for the president and Republicans there? |
| 0:35.6 | Well, there's a lot at stake for the president. He does not want to lose the House next year. |
| 0:41.3 | And as we saw in a series of off-year and special elections that we've seen this year, Democrats have outperformed by about 13 points. |
| 0:51.3 | If you take all of the Republicans that won by less than 13 points, |
| 0:56.7 | that's a lot of Republicans in the House. So there's a very real problem. This is part of why |
| 1:01.4 | President Trump is trying to sort of change the rules of the game. But it also creates |
| 1:08.5 | challenges. When you change the lines in the middle of the decade, you're messing up districts for incumbents. |
| 1:15.5 | And some people don't want that to happen. |
| 1:17.8 | You're also taking really safe seats and making them somewhat less safe so that you can, in theory, get more seats. |
| 1:25.5 | And it also has been set off what we've seen in California. |
| 1:30.4 | There's now talk in Virginia about redrawing the lines there once Abigail Spanberger |
| 1:34.6 | goes and gets into office in January. |
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