Ari Berman: ‘The GOP Is Taking Away Districts that Have Existed for Decades’

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BERMAN: "Well, and that’s what’s going to motivate Republicans in these states that are redrawing the maps in Tennessee and Mississippi and Alabama and Louisiana. I mean, these are the reddest of the red states in the country."

HAYES: "Right. They’re all operating in that world."

BERMAN: "Exactly. That’s why there has to be a political backlash to what they’re doing. I mean, they are taking away districts that have existed for decades in a matter of days. I mean, Memphis has been part of one congressional district in Tennessee since 1923. And in a matter of days, they are just ripping it completely apart. There has to be a political price to pay for this. It has to go beyond the MAGA universe to say that if you just rip apart communities for no good reason, there has to be a political price to pay for it."