Got a huge power grab vote in Virginia. Pop vote gets all electorals

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00:00 Well, they got a big vote going on in Virginia right now that is nothing less than a huge power grab. Now, Governor Abigail Spamberger, she recently signed on to the National Popular Vote Compact, which means Virginia would give all 13 of their electoral votes to whoever won the popular vote. 00:30 See, it doesn't matter in Virginia who you really vote for. 00:38 They've just taken your vote away in Virginia. So whoever wins the popular vote, they're gonna win all of them, all 13 electoral votes from Virginia. So here's the thing. um 00:57 So let's say, I wonder how they would have felt if in the last election, Donald Trump won the popular vote and Virginia had to give all of their electoral votes to Donald Trump. I'm pretty sure they would have been very upset. But you see what they're banking on is the Democrats staying in power. And this is all this is about, Democrats staying in power. So what they're doing in Virginia is they're taking a vote on whether or not to redistrict Virginia. 01:29 And that would be really bad for the GOP. Here's Fox News. ...as four seats. Critics call the move a power grab, but new Democratic Governor Abigail Spanberger says the Republicans started it. We know that this all began when President Trump said that he was, entitled to extra seats in Congress. That's where we saw Texas first launch into a redistricting process to begin to try and stack seats within the halls of Congress. And so now... 01:58 As we have seen states take action, Virginia has the ability to do something responsive. Former Virginia Governor Glenn Yonkin, joins me now. Thank you for being here. The Democrats are playing hardball. In fact, they even called in the former president to help. You can push back against the Republicans trying to give themselves an unfair advantage in the midterms. So that was Barack Hussein Obama. Now, here's the thing, though. 02:27 And I'll say this until it's not true. 02:33 The Democrats are just better at playing politics than the Republicans. We've had several states, Nebraska being one of them, Ohio, another couple of states there, even here in South Carolina. We had the opportunity to redraw districts. Here in South Carolina, we could have gotten rid of Jim Clyburn's district. We wouldn't have to worry about Jim Clyburn anymore. 03:01 But our weak need, Rhino Legislature. 03:08 and our disappearing governor. I was talking to Peggy and Peggy told me that she didn't understand it, so therefore I don't understand it either. 03:23 So we didn't get that done. They didn't even try. They didn't even make a veiled effort. 03:33 to redistrict here in South Carolina. 03:37 Now, other states, they got weak knee. Well, I'll tell you what, we need to get a whole bunch of physical therapists over in the Republican Party to check on these people's knees. Maybe they're too weak from bending them to the Democrats all the time. Maybe that's the problem. 03:55 I swear to you, and another thing I'll say, I don't really think Republicans want to govern. And I don't think they want to win the midterms. That's a darn shame. If you're in politics and you don't want your party to be victorious, you need to get out. Leave. But that power, the power they have, the money, everybody glad-handed them, oh, Congressman, oh, Senator, we would love for you to go to this event or that event. Hey, we'd love you to come on down. 04:25 Did you see how many politicians were down in Hilton Head over the weekend at the Heritage Golf Tournament? Did you see them? They were everywhere. Everybody there wearing their plaid. 04:40 Yeah. Oh, let's go to the Camden. Oh, I got invited to the Camden Cup. I got invited to the whatever. They love it. They absolutely love it. 04:51 What they don't want to do is actually get in there and fight for you, which is a shame. even seeing, so if you look at the map right now, Virginia, there are 11 congressional districts in Virginia. In the last ele ...

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