What the Left Will Claim When They Lose in November
Making the Argument with Nick Freitas
Nick Freitas
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🗓️ 3 May 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
The 2022 midterms are shaping up to be a disaster for Democrats.
But they're already working up an excuse for why they will lose: gerrymandering.
Here's what you need to know to counter this claim.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, if all the political trends are to be believed, it looks like Republicans are going to have a very good day, this upcoming election day in November, where it is almost certain that the Republicans will take back the House of Representatives. |
| 0:14.0 | So what's going to happen as soon as that takes place? Will Democrats simply come out and go, you know what? Gosh, I guess we just had fair and transparent elections and that's the game. |
| 0:22.0 | Or will we hear that due to a number of things from Vladimir Putin and probably, probably most certainly because of gerrymandering, right? |
| 0:33.3 | That will be the reason why Republicans won according to Democrats. |
| 0:37.0 | It will not be that Joe Biden |
| 0:38.4 | was doing a horrible job or the economy was in the tank or he had screwed up Afghanistan or the |
| 0:42.0 | Ukraine. No, no, no. It will be gerrymandering. And you're already starting to see some of this |
| 0:46.3 | narrative take place now in order to prep the objective. Well, today we're going to go to our resident |
| 0:52.0 | historian and political prognosticator Christian Hines, |
| 0:54.6 | who is actually going to explain what has been going on across the country. |
| 0:58.8 | He's going to give a fair and honest analysis. |
| 1:02.5 | And Republicans don't get off scot-free. |
| 1:04.2 | But we're going to be talking about all of that and more on this episode of making the argument |
| 1:07.0 | where we make the arguments to defend a free society. |
| 1:09.5 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 1:10.3 | If you learned something new today on this episode of making the argument where we make the arguments to defend a free society. Thank you for joining us. If you learned something new today on this episode of making the argument, be sure to hit |
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| 1:18.4 | I am very excited for today's conversation. Jerrymandering and redistricting has been a conversation |
| 1:23.1 | taking place within our team for many months now. And there are still questions that I have related to the topic. And I'm excited to ask those and learn more about the subject. Well, I'm |
| 1:31.3 | glad somebody's interested. Well, as always, I'm your host, Nick Freitas, member of the Virginia |
| 1:36.3 | House of Delegates and actually had an opportunity to vote on what was the closest we could come up |
| 1:41.3 | with a nonpartisan commission with respect to drawing the lines |
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