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Tim Walz: “We write our partisan maps and they're always thrown out in…”

Featuring: Tim Walz, Democratic | Governor of Minnesota

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Published | Video Starts at 17:50

That's a good answer. No, ours. Ours is dictated. We look, I said this. And Iowa does this very, very fairly. They do nonpartisan judicial redistricting and are agreed to be fair. We write our partisan maps and they're always thrown out in court by Republican and Democratic judges. Then they write them, and I think it's agreed in Minnesota, they're fair. I'm not being asked, but I'm from Rhode island, and I'll kind of weigh in here a little bit. (17:50–17:56)

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Asserts that partisan maps in Minnesota are consistently rejected by courts.

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