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On the recordJuly 15, 2022
When we started the Democratic -- National Democratic Redistricting Committee back in January of 2017, and I was talking about the importance of gerrymandering. You can see people’s eyes glaze over and figuring out, what is this all about. But when you make people understand that gerrymandering, voter suppression has an impact on their day to day lives, and now we’re seeing it in very tangible ways.
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Eric Holder
Democratic · District of Columbia
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msnbc.com

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Holder discusses the importance of making the public understand the impact of gerrymandering and voter suppression on their daily lives.

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