Republicans lose midterms despite redistricting push
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[0:00] Republicans efforts to gain House seats
[0:02] by redrawing congressional maps. Well,
[0:04] it did not work out as planned on
[0:06] Tuesday. Here's some numbers.
[0:08] Republicans identified 15 House seats
[0:11] across seven states that they thought
[0:13] through redistricting would benefit
[0:14] them. Right now, they are projected to
[0:17] win just two of those seats, one in
[0:19] Tennessee, one in Texas. Democrats, for
[0:22] their part, targeted and picked up five
[0:25] seats in California. They also flipped
[0:27] one seat in Utah that a court ordered to
[0:30] be redrawn. CBS News election law expert
[0:33] David Becker is with me. David, we were
[0:35] together on Tuesday. We did not have to
[0:36] go to you very