Hello, and welcome to the new abnormal live. I am producer Jesse Cannon. I'm so psyched you can join us today for the one year anniversary of the new abnormal and also to celebrate over 20 million downloads, which I want to thank you all so much for.

I want to first let you know that there's a chat function as well as a Q&A function where you can ask questions and vote up the ones you'd like us to answer and we'll choose from some of those as well as some questions that were submitted beforehand.

To start things off though, we have a fun poll that I'd love for you all to answer. And then I'm going to let you know what we're going to be discussing today. So first off, we'll be discussing the words from President Joe Biden, Tim Scott's pathetic retort to it.

And of course, the person who's experiencing the opposite of a glow up one Rudolph Giuliani. So I want to introduce first new abnormal host the one the only Molly Zhang fast. How you doing today, Molly?

I'm good. I can't see you because I have the poll in front of me. Here we go. I'm good. I'm excited to be here. Very fun. Happy to have everyone here. And I'm really excited about our two special celebrity. Yes.

Let me introduce them. We have senior politics editor for the Dilly Beast Matt Follower over here. Matt, how you doing? Good.

Making it nice as well as White House reporter for the Dilly Beast scuppets. He's got how you doing.

How do you do well? Awesome. So I am very psyched to kick this off. So one of the first questions I want to do is Molly. The listers want to know.

Do Republicans deny your request to talk to you? Or do you not pursue them often?

So we did get one Republican. It was very sick. We've had two now. We had Adam Kinzinger. But I got that by like handling Eric Swalwell because it turns out Eric Swalwell was good friends with Adam Kinzinger.

So I got Adam. I got Eric to give me Adam's cell phone number. And then I just for rated him into coming out of the podcast. So we did have one elected Republican.

And I thought he was great and very reasonable. And then we had another guy who's running against Marjorie Taylor Green in the primary.

But yeah, they don't want to come shockingly. They don't want to come on. And also I would say like I don't know that listeners love it. Like we had Andrew Yang who's not a Republican, but also not totally a Democrat.

And people didn't love it. So, but yeah, if you guys have a great Republican you want on the podcast, send me a DM because I have opened the.

Next we have a interesting question that I'd love to pose to the group, which is how do you foresee the 2020 census results redrawing the political representation of those.

That's a good one. Matt, Matt Fuller, you want to go first?

Sure. I mean, we have a we now know at least as of this week, which states are losing and which states are gaining. I guess the big surprise was actually the states that weren't gaining as much. Texas was on the bubble for three seats Florida was on the bubble for two seats.

And it looks like a lot of the maybe some of the Hispanic populations didn't grow as much or at least weren't as counted as much this time around.

So, yeah, you know, you have the traditional things you're losing California's losing a seat this time first time in a long time, New York's losing a seat.

Again, you know, a lot of the rust belt West Virginia is losing a seat. So a lot of those, you know, we're re-aligning things a little bit again, the big trend here has been the Exodus from the rust belt a little bit to those sort of sunnier states.

So, I don't think this really changes too much. It's really the question is how are these how are they going to be drawn and that is still sort of up in the air and a lot of these respects. You know, just because New York is losing a seat doesn't mean that's going to be a democratic seat.

Definitely a possibility that you could redraw with the legislature there. You could redraw it so that it's actually more beneficial to Democrats.

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