Oct 20, 2026 · 18 min · 9 segments
In this multipart topic, Mike and Peter discuss the coming midterm elections, focusing on four key policy issues, as well as other promises Trump made to his MAGA supporters. This episode covers the…
Must be very frustrating because there are more Trump supporters in California than most other states.
As a matter of fact, if Texas and these other red states hadn't decided to gerrymander and redistrict when they're not supposed to, you're only supposed to do that after the census, you know, every 10 years.
Well, Gavin Newsom's response to that was, OK, well, we'll do it in California.
But what they're doing is they're saying, OK, this district went red, 80 percent red, 80 to 20.
So therefore, we can pilfer from the neighboring district 20 percent of their blue.
We can cut in some of those people because then we'll still win that district 60-40.
And so bringing this back, that's why I think it's really important to continue talking about red state versus blue state in the context of these bullet points.
Must be very frustrating because there are more Trump supporters in California than most other states.
As a matter of fact, if Texas and these other red states hadn't decided to gerrymander and redistrict when they're not supposed to, you're only supposed to do that after the census, you know, every 10 years.
Well, Gavin Newsom's response to that was, OK, well, we'll do it in California.
But what they're doing is they're saying, OK, this district went red, 80 percent red, 80 to 20.
So therefore, we can pilfer from the neighboring district 20 percent of their blue.
We can cut in some of those people because then we'll still win that district 60-40.
And so bringing this back, that's why I think it's really important to continue talking about red state versus blue state in the context of these bullet points.
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