leann caldwell. good afternoon to both of you. garrett, why don't you pick it up? >> yeah. i focused on texas, the lone star state sends more republicans to congress than any other state, and the way they've drawn their maps they expect to keep it that way for the next ten years. >> republicans what republicans have done is taken a map where they had 23 seats, eight of which were vulnerable, and they've created a new map where they're going to have 24 seats, only one. which is vulnerable. >> reporter: they built a fortress around their incumbents. facing a booming latino population and slipping support in the suburbs, texas republicans took advantage of the state's sheer size to shore up their members. take for example michael mccall's tenth district. after a couple of close races, map makers lopped off a section of diverse and fast-growing harris county and replaced it with vast swaths of land in conservative and rural areas north and west of houston. state republicans say their maps
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