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Hakeem Jeffries: “Republicans know that if the elections were held today, they…”

Featuring: Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic | U.S. House New York, 8th Congressional District

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Leader Jeffries on Bloomberg Open Interest

Published | Video Starts at 01:53

And you've got a lot of armchair mathematicians out there suggesting that could mean as many as 30 or 35 seats for Democrats in the midterms. How do you see it? Well, Republicans know that if the elections were held today, they would lose. That's the reason why Donald Trump has decided to engage in this extreme effort to gerrymander congressional maps all across the country. And it's very unfortunate. (01:53–01:57)

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