supported by governor walker as well. so what have you been up to since 2016? eric holder has been busy. he s been beating one of the highest-profile republican governors in the country up and down the ballot, in and out of court, and on the governor s home turf. and he s up for more. the main thrust of this group that eric holder founded with president obama is actually about the district maps that determine which candidates run where. when republicans swept the midterm elections in 2010, the first midterms of the obama era, not only did they retake control of congress, they also took control of 21 legislative chambers across the country. and legislative chambers draw district maps. them taking all of those legislative chambers allowed republicans to rewrite legislative and congressional maps in all those states, in what turned out to be an organized, effective effort to basically lock republicans into power for the next ten years, by virtue of the districts that they had drawn for th
time for this year s midterm elections in november. and that s just one part of the multi-pronged strategy that eric holder s group is working on this year. steve kornacki got the group s executive director to explain what that effort looks like now and what to expect next. so, when you look at the map, democrats trying to take, i think, 23 seats right now to get control of the house, where is gerrymandering, the gerrymandering you say republicans have done, where is that most prevalent on that sort of house battlefield right now? well, our job is to look at the map through the redistricting lens. and when you do that, you want to go after the states that are most gerrymandered. so those states are ohio, michigan, north carolina, texas, virginia, florida, wisconsin all the biggies, it sounds like. so, all the big ones. and you can see from that, there is a direct correlation, particularly with the governor s races. there are a lot of gubernatorial races in those states this y