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Suddenly, President Trump's effort to rig the 2026 midterms with corrupt gerrymandering schemes seems to be in serious trouble. In Indiana, Republicans have announced that they lack the votes to

redraw their congressional map, and on Tuesday, a panel of judges blocked a big GOP gerrymander

in Texas, another big blow to Trump's scheme. Trump is unhappy that his plot is faltering. He

lashed out at Indiana Republicans on truth social, threatening primaries and raging

at the stupidity of one leading opponent. So is this plan dead? Not quite. Several aspects of this

still remain unresolved. Republicans had added five seats in Texas. Those are now in serious doubt,

but they have added four others. Meanwhile, Democrats

are adding five in California and got one in Utah. Still, there's a lot up in the air. So we're

working through what lies ahead with Heather Williams, who's been leading the fight against the

scheme as president of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee. Heather, thanks for coming on.

Thank you. I'm glad to be here with you. In Texas, Republicans had added five seats in a gerrymander

and a panel of judges just ruled that it's likely unconstitutional. Politico called this a massive blow to

the White House and Trump. It looks like this might be appealed and may end up

at the Supreme Court. It's always foolish to count on this court to do anything, let alone something

on gerrymandering. What happened with the Texas ruling and what do you expect from the high court on

that? Yeah, Texas is, it's where it started, right? And this is where the president called on Republicans

in a strategy that does not seem like it was well thought out. And so the process moved through

the courts, as one would expect here. And now we are sitting at a ruling that is not good for Republicans that creates a

question mark of whether or not this map, the first one that Republicans gerrymandered in this

mid-cycle process, is actually going to stand.

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