You've said it's going to kill the country. I mean, how does it actually kill the ability to reach across the aisle like you gentlemen are doing? What happens is When you create these safe seats through gerrymandering, the only elections that matter are not the general election, but the primary. So everybody panders to their base. The Republicans talk to their base, the Democrats talk to their base. And instead of talking to all of their constituents about what they care about and there's a lot of pandering that goes on. (25:33–25:42)
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Asserts that gerrymandering makes primaries more important than general elections.
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