The Death of the Competitive Congressional District

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🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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This episode contains strong language. After winning his House seat in the 2018 midterm elections, Representative Dan Crenshaw, a Republican of Texas, seemed to have found a sweet spot between full-blown Trumpism and the anti-Trump wing of the party. But after Jan. 6, and ahead of this year’s midterms, more extreme factions of the Republican Party have cast him less as a vision for the future and more as a symbol of what needs snuffing out. The once-in-a-decade redistricting process gives those factions a structural advantage. On the ground in Texas, we explore the impact of redistricting and speak to Mr. Crenshaw about the state of his party. Guest: Shane Goldmacher, a national political reporter for The New York Times.

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0:28.4	Today on The Daily, Times Protocol correspondent Shane Goldmacher takes us inside the first
0:43.0	primary of the 2022 midterms.
1:02.9	If you were paying attention to the 2018 midterms and maybe even if you weren't, you might
1:07.9	remember this one moment on Saturday Night Live.
1:19.0	We're images of various candidates flashed on the screen and comedian Pete Davidson poked
1:23.8	fun at the way they looked.
1:25.8	This guy's kind of cool, a Dan Crenshaw.
1:33.6	You may be surprised to hear he's a congressional candidate from Texas.
1:37.8	Not a hitman in a porn omelette.
1:43.0	I'm sorry.
1:44.0	I know he lost his eye in war or whatever.
1:52.0	Davidson was ridiculing a conservative candidate from Texas named Dan Crenshaw, a former Navy
1:57.4	seal who wears an eye patch.
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