called upon by mr. steele to act. we brought in the map guru of america. you know what it is. you know who i m talking act. it s steve kornacki on a non-election night. he is our national correspondent for msnbc, he s the author of the red and the blue. since michael suggested this, it was fair to bring him back along with howard dean who are mere for this special conversation, a deep dive on the national political situation. the mechanics of congress and just what is happening there tonight with why. so we re going to begin with steve kornacki s report. steve, take it away. sure, thanks, ari. what we re talking about here is the partisan distribution of voters. a couple different ways i go es to look at this. first the map that everybody knows. this is the 2020 election. biden wins. here s the electoral vote. here are the red states, the blue states. you see basically we know democrats concentrated a lot on