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Hey, can you hear me? I called up Cook Political Reports, Dave Wasserman, because I needed a guide.

Someone who could explain to me what just happened to New York State's Congressional delegation.

Dave, how would you describe New York's redistricting process this year?

For the past few weeks, New York's Democrats, people who represent me, have been getting increasingly

anxious as they wait finalized congressional maps. These maps were supposed to be settled on

months ago, but an independent commission couldn't agree on them. The Democratic State Legislature

drew their own maps, but those got challenged in court. Finally, a judge threw all these maps out

and had an independent special master start from scratch. What he came up with, it has not made

the Democrats very happy. When my congressman got really upset about the back and forth over these

congressional maps, he made these digital ads where it was kind of interesting. He said,

they have drawn congressional maps that are unfair. But don't the Democrats control just about

every lever of power in the state of New York? Well, except as it turns out, the Court of Appeals,

which is the top court in the state, they were hoping to offset what Republicans were doing in Texas,

in Ohio and Florida, and elsewhere by passing a maximally aggressive map that would have given

them 22 out of 26 seats in the state. Now, is that a fair reflection of New York's politics?

No, it's an inflation of Democrats' advantage in the state. But Democrats would argue,

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