Why bipartisanship is disappearing from Congress

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  Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

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  I'm Miles Parks.

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  I cover voting.

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  I'm Sam Gringlas.

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  I cover Congress.

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  And I'm Ashley Lopez.

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  I cover politics.

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  And today on the show,

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  A political trend that experts say is killing bipartisanship and making government work worse.

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  Ashley,

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  you have some reporting this week that shows that this trend was actually really heightened by the redistricting arm race that we saw last year.

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  Can you explain all this?

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  Yeah, so basically what we found is that...

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  this redistricting fight that was started by Trump when he asked Texas Republicans to redraw their congressional map so that there were more favorable seats for Republicans in the state.

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  And then, you know, obviously that...

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  prompted other Republican states to do the same and Democrats countered with maps that favored their party in other states,

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