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Phil Weiser: “Jared Polis won his election by 19 points.”

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Full interview: Attorney General Phil Weiser on redrawing Congressional maps in Colorado

Published October 23, 2025 | Video Starts at 10:21

I'm talking about mid cycle redistricting in Colorado. If you look at our state fairly, I don't think you would draw a 44 map. We are a bluer state. Jared Polis won his election by 19 points. If we were to redistrict in a way that's more consistent with how voters vote, we're not going to be a 44 state. That's what a mid cycle redistricting could allow. (10:21–10:25)

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Asserts that Jared Polis won his election by a margin of 19 points.

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“The norm, you do it once a decade is being shattered right now.”
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“We passed what I believe is what every state should do, independent, fair districting.”
Full interview: Attorney General Phil Weiser on redrawing Congressional maps in Colorado | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 02:30-02:36
“The Supreme Court, by the way, could have made that the law of the land.”
Full interview: Attorney General Phil Weiser on redrawing Congressional maps in Colorado | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 02:36-02:39
“Extreme partisan gerrymandering violates the federal constitution.”
Full interview: Attorney General Phil Weiser on redrawing Congressional maps in Colorado | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 02:41-02:46
“What's new is mid cycle redistricting.”
Full interview: Attorney General Phil Weiser on redrawing Congressional maps in Colorado | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 03:16-03:19
“The norm had been up until now, this effort pushed by President Trump, you had once a decade.”
Full interview: Attorney General Phil Weiser on redrawing Congressional maps in Colorado | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 03:19-03:26
“If you end up with only one party doing mid cycle redistricting and the other party doesn't, that's actually a threat to democracy.”
Full interview: Attorney General Phil Weiser on redrawing Congressional maps in Colorado | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 03:42-03:51
“This needs to be done as a limited intervention to allow us to get back to normalcy.”
Full interview: Attorney General Phil Weiser on redrawing Congressional maps in Colorado | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 04:20-04:26
“I'm proud that Colorado did a national model.”
Full interview: Attorney General Phil Weiser on redrawing Congressional maps in Colorado | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 05:01-05:04
“The Supreme Court said we're not going to mandate this rule, no gerrymandering.”
Full interview: Attorney General Phil Weiser on redrawing Congressional maps in Colorado | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 05:07-05:12
“The legislature would probably have to draw [the maps] in this case because the time period isn't giving us the benefit of time.”
Full interview: Attorney General Phil Weiser on redrawing Congressional maps in Colorado | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 07:54-08:02
“We'd have an amendment to our constitution on the ballot in 2026 that would say in case of emergency, other states are doing mid cycle…”
Full interview: Attorney General Phil Weiser on redrawing Congressional maps in Colorado | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 08:05-08:19
“We have to be willing to do our part. We're all in this United States Congress as a compact.”
Full interview: Attorney General Phil Weiser on redrawing Congressional maps in Colorado | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 08:41-12:52
“If we were to redistrict in a way that's more consistent with how voters vote, we're not going to be a 4-4 state.”
Full interview: Attorney General Phil Weiser on redrawing Congressional maps in Colorado | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 10:25-10:32
“The norm is once a decade. I like that norm. But if others are breaking that norm, we're. We can too.”
Full interview: Attorney General Phil Weiser on redrawing Congressional maps in Colorado | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 10:41-10:47
“The key idea is I envision exception to Y and Z. So the norm is 2031. We have new redistricting because we have a new census that goes…”
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“Jason Crow was elected in 2018 in what looked and felt like a swing district. He's now winning by 20 points because that district has become…”
Full interview: Attorney General Phil Weiser on redrawing Congressional maps in Colorado | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 15:58-16:07
“Brittany Petterson was elected in what people thought was a swing district that's become more blue.”
Full interview: Attorney General Phil Weiser on redrawing Congressional maps in Colorado | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 16:06-16:12
“We are the opposite of a gerrymandering state. The Democratic majority with 4, 4 in Congress looks like we're... bending over backwards to…”
Full interview: Attorney General Phil Weiser on redrawing Congressional maps in Colorado | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 16:59-17:13
“Even if we go reasonable, it's going to be more of a blue state.”
Full interview: Attorney General Phil Weiser on redrawing Congressional maps in Colorado | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 17:13-17:18
“The key difference right now is do we do a mid cycle redistricting or not? I say yes, because others are doing it thinking they're going to…”
Full interview: Attorney General Phil Weiser on redrawing Congressional maps in Colorado | Uploaded October 23, 2025 | 17:25-17:36