The real solution we need is congressional action to create independent,

congressionally redrawn maps that aren't decided by partisans.

Because what you've got now is the players are also the umpires.

And that's why this whole game is broken and not working.

And American democracy is ultimately what's suffering. It's in a moment. Paul Reichoff and Jamal Simmons are here with me in the meantime.

Jamal, when you hear John going through this and laying out that big map, right, of what it means for the midterms, but also tonight and we watch it flipping back and forth.

Now, we'll see. Fairfax County is crucial, right? That could make the whole thing be really closer, not close at all. We'll see. How confident do you think Democrats are?

Oh, I don't think anybody's confident at all about anything here. Here's the thing. These maps suck, Aaron. It's really not fun for us to be in the place where we're doing this as a country. But Donald Trump started it. So Democrats couldn't lay down. They had to get in the game and try to push back a little bit because, God forbid, they're in the middle of an election. and they lose by seven seats that Donald Trump got because he got these states to redistrict.

So you can't really clutch your pearls about this.

If you're a Democrat, you just got to swallow hard and go ahead and try to make sure that the Democratic Party stays competitive with the president.

So, Paul, Trump last night called into a teller rally, okay, to get Republicans to get the turnout, right? And we were just talking about the turnout here. The Spanberger race, governor race, was epic. Okay. And this might be even more. So we called into a tell a rally to tell Republicans to get out and oppose this. Here's what he said.

This referendum is a blatant partisan power grab that nobody's really ever seen anything like it.

Okay.

So he said that.

Of course, he was also the one who said something quite different when Texas was up to bat with their net five.

Here he is then.

On Texas, how many more seats do you want the Republicans to draw?

Five.

Texas would be the biggest one.

Are you calling then for a complete redrawing of the congressional map?

No, no.

Just a very simple redrawing. We pick up five seats. So I guess when it's benefiting him, it's a simple redrawing. We get five seats. But when it's the other side picking up four, it's a partisan power grab that no one's ever seen before. Yeah. It is a totally broken system. Yeah. I think it's hard to argue anything else. This is what a rigged political system looks like. And the Republicans tried to rig it first. And now the Democrats are

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