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Jake Auchincloss: “Things have been gerrymandered so badly that you no longer…”

Featuring: Jake Auchincloss, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, District 4

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Jeffrey Goldberg, Meghna Chakrabarti, and Rep. Jake Auchincloss in Boston on America at 250

Published | Video Starts at 42:46

Same for us, by the way, on the Democratic side, when you are locked in these algorithmic echo chambers of social media, when Things have been gerrymandered so badly that you no longer care about the median voter. what you are stuck with is this constant ratcheting effect where in order to demonstrate your pure credibility with this, with the MAGA vein, you have to say increasingly outrageous things. (42:46–42:51)

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Asserts that gerrymandering has led to a lack of concern for the median voter.

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