MIRS Monday, May 6, 2019

He was the House Speaker who oversaw the drawing of the legislative and congressional boundaries that a federal court panel recently threw out as partisan gerrymandered. What does Jase Bolger say about the judges' decision and the process by which the maps were drawn? How does he respond to emails submitted as evidence that Republicans were "packing" and "cracking" the district lines for partisan advantage?

Also, what would the Republicans' chances of keeping the state Senate if they had to run in a presidential year for the first time since the 1960s? Someone who knows a thing or two about winning elections for Senate Republicans, Denise DeCook of DeCook Strategies, gives her opinion on this, presidential politics and the slower start from this year's legislative cycle.