Talk more about why the GOP thought this new new drawing of the map would play to their benefit.

Absolutely.

So in 2024, of course, across the country, especially in South Texas, which borders Mexico, Latino voters swung towards Trump in extraordinary numbers, right? In some communities, this is the first time maybe they've ever elected a Republican for president.

But at the same time, many of these voters also backed their Democratic congressmen.

In some counties, like in Henry Cuellar's district, 30 or 40 percent of voters voted for Trump and then went down their ballots and voted for Cuellar, who's a Democrat, to represent them in Congress.

And so while there was this swing towards Trump, which the maps were based on, of course, there was also this These are not people who have been voting Republican for generations.

They're very willing to split their tickets.

Do Republicans in Texas acknowledge that it's backfiring?