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Laura Coates Live

Tennessee Passes New Congressional Map, Eliminates Only Dem District

Laura Coates Live

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3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Amid raucous protests, Republicans in Tennessee enacted a new US House map that carves up a majority-Black district in Memphis, reshaping it to the GOP’s advantage as part of President Donald Trump’s strategy to hold on to a slim majority in the November midterm elections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Right, home from work, walk the dog, kids are back.

0:05.0

Mom!

0:06.0

Up the stairs for something.

0:08.0

Ugh, back down, no idea what I went up for.

0:12.0

Mom, what's for dinner?

0:14.0

Chop, sizzle, done.

0:17.0

Hello Fresh can't slow life down, but it makes bringing everyone together around the table a whole lot easier.

0:23.6

So its phones down, forks up.

0:25.6

Hello Fresh. Bring back dinner time.

0:28.6

Hello.

0:29.6

Tonight, the Ruechicken Fight, it arrives in Tennessee as Republicans erase the state's only

0:39.2

black majority district. Now what? Plus, breaking tonight, new military strikes from the

0:46.1

United States and Iran jeopardizing this so-called ceasefire. Is the president's patience about to run

0:52.7

out? And later, President Trump briefed on the

0:55.7

haunted virus cruise ship and says he's hopeful it's under control. As health officials try to avoid

1:02.4

any panic. I've got a top doctor joining me tonight. Hit the record straight and answer your

1:07.8

questions. Now you have some tonight on Laura Coates Live.

1:17.2

My opening statement tonight, Tennessee just proved the critics of the Supreme Court were right.

1:23.8

Took what, barely a week.

1:25.7

State Republicans pushed a new congressional map and got it to the

1:29.9

governor's desk in just eight days. Now that makes Tennessee the first state to officially redraw

1:36.7

and pass a new map since the six conservative Supreme Court justices gutted Section 2 of the Voting

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