seats, even though that creates locked in republicans, we re trading republican power for a little black power, and if you don t do that you won t have many african-americans in congress. what do you think of the argument? i think you can draw districts in a way that give african-americans and latinos and asian americans representation, and for the first time under the voting districts act while making it fair. and this is a form of election rigging. we shouldn t forget the same politicians drawing these crazy gerrymandering districts are also suppressing the vote. the first thing they do when they get into the power is draw districts to pass voter suppression laws to demobilize their opposition. in wisconsin, they did both. passed one of the worst gerrymandering maps and voter suppression in history.
but only got 39 seats. and 2016, republicans got 53% of the vote but 64 seats, and democrats got 47% of the vote and got 35 seats. it s not working that well. in wisconsin, it s been open the way republicans have tried to lock democrats out of power? for sure. the only open thing i would say regarding that is these maps were literally crafted in secret wherever single member of the republican caucus had to sign a secr secrecy agreement, and it s top to bottom, and it s the only fraud in the election, politicians rigging the process for political gain. republicans nationwide in terms of the house of representatives, they got 49% of the vote but 55% of the seats, and that s in the most recent election in 2016. if this case were to go in the direction of the plaintiffs, could this knock down
care. i want to focus on north korea and iran and other things. i don t want to focus on fixing somebody s back or their knee or something. let the states do that. i can almost say we re just about there in terms of the vote. it s sort of remarkable, because performing compassion is presidenting 101. it s amazing and remarkable that he doesn t even try to mime it, jennifer? yeah, it s like somebody trying to speak a foreign language they have not learned. it s foreign to him. donald trump simultaneously manages to wine, complain and pat himself on the back. he s always the victim and being done by the press or some local politician. the stunt is not working for him, the latest ap poll has him at 32% approval. the walls are closing in from the special prosecutor and from events and from the polls, and he does the only thing he knows how to do which is
explain gerrymandering and why do you think it would go in the direction you would want it to go? the supreme court struck down racial gerrymandering, so you can t deny districts under representation, but you can draw districts to deny democrats or vice versa. getting a majority of seats, this case is challenging that kind of partisan gerrymandering. we are showing that on the screen right now. i think we flipped to the second one where republicans won 47% of the vote, and i believe this is wisconsin in 2012, but they got 60 out of 99 seats. democrats got 53% of the vote,
and many wisconsins couldn t vote in the last election many of color. the two largest populations of african-americans and democratic voters in the state of wisconsin, the 20,000 people were not able to vote because of the voter id law. my organization, we went to court and went in federal court and beat scott walker when it came to attacking early voting rights in the state of wisconsin, and once we got some of the laws thrown out, when you give people a 21st century voting model they will vote and use the right to vote and we shattered early voting records here in the state of wisconsin in the 2016 elections. it has been top to bottom in attack on voter rights when it s voter intimidation or suppression. they were doing voter caging, for god sakes. they can t win in the court of public opinion, and we will have to see what happens in the supreme court. it feels like a lot of what we are see something locking in