The Redistricting Game

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🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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A Virginia judge allowed the state’s Democrats to pursue a redistricting plan on Wednesday that would permit them to amend the state’s constitution and redraw its congressional districts before next year’s midterm elections – despite a lawsuit from Virginia Republicans. Those Democrats are following a national trend, kicked off by President Trump. Back in August, Trump called on Texas to redraw its congressional maps ahead of the 2026 midterms in order to minimize Republican losses in the House. And after Texas redrew its maps, California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom responded by putting forward a plan to redistrict his state through a ballot measure, Proposition 50, that would redraw California’s congressional districts and push five Republicans out of their seats. Californians will be voting on the proposition on Election Day next week. To explain the fight and how the 2026 Midterms became a battle royale, I spoke with John Bisognano. He’s the President of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee. And in headlines, Congress continues to prove pointless as funding for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits are set to expire for millions of Americans, the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates again, and immigration officials deport a man living in Alabama to Laos despite literally being ordered not to.

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, October 30th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is what a day.
0:05.9	The show that's here to remind you that college football is politics, and politics is college football.
0:10.8	Exhibit 1,215.
0:13.4	Here's Louisiana Republican Governor Jeff Landry, who is very, very, very upset at recently fired LSU head football coach Brian Kelly,
0:22.3	explaining a fun idea as to who should pick his replacement on Wednesday.
0:25.3	And you know what? I believe, I believe that we're going to find a great coach.
0:29.2	I mean, maybe we're like President Trump pick it. He loves winners. You know, I'm not going to be
0:33.1	picking the next coach. But I can promise you, we're going to pick a coach, and we're going to make
0:39.6	sure that that coach is successful, and we're going to make sure that he's compensated properly,
0:43.3	and we're going to put metrics on it, because I'm tired of rewarding failure in this country.
0:50.0	Based on President Donald Trump's prior work in the sport of football, Governor Landry,
0:53.7	I don't think you want him involved here unless you want to be rewarding more failure.
1:04.0	On today's show, Congress continues to prove pointless,
1:07.1	as funding for supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits
1:10.1	is on the verge of expiring
1:12.0	for millions of Americans. And immigration officials deport a man living in Alabama to Laos despite
1:17.2	literally being ordered not to. But let's start with the hottest topic everyone is talking about
1:22.8	right now. Congressional redistricting. A Virginia judge allowed the state's Democrats to pursue a redistricting plan on Wednesday
1:30.2	that would permit them to amend the state's constitution.
1:33.3	It allows Virginia's congressional districts to be redrawn before next year's midterm elections
1:38.0	despite a lawsuit from Virginia Republicans.
1:40.6	Those Democrats are following a national trend kicked off by Trump.
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