Liz Peek joined The Bottom Line to break down three stories where Democrats are playing games instead of making arguments. First up: Virginia’s redistricting push, backed by $60–70 million in outside money — including from a George Soros-linked group called Virginians for Fair Elections — that would hand Democrats 10 of 11 congressional seats in a state that’s only 51% Democrat. Voters already approved a bipartisan redistricting commission in 2020. This measure bypasses it entirely, with a promise to revert by 2030 that Peek called out as bogus — it’s designed to juice the next two election cycles, nothing more.
Joy Reid handed Peek the next one herself. Reid went on air claiming Democrats play by the rules while Republicans rewrite them. Peek ran through the actual record: last-minute 2020 election rule changes, attempts to keep Trump off the 2024 ballot, Supreme Court packing talk, Puerto Rico statehood as a power play, and a Washington Post op-ed revealing the push to eliminate the Electoral College is further along than most Americans know. Virginia just moved to assign its electoral votes by national popular vote. Peek’s warning was direct — if Democrats take the Senate in the next cycle or two, the procedural guardrails that make the Senate function are gone.
The third story featured Kathy Hochul getting protested by climate activists who called her a “climate criminal” for pausing parts of New York’s 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act. Peek sided with Hochul’s practicality over the protesters’ outrage. New Yorkers already pay 50% more for electricity than the national average and more for gas on top of that. Peek tied both directly to Democratic climate mandates — policies sold as necessary that are hitting working people in the wallet every month.
Peek’s read on all three: Democrats aren’t winning the policy argument, so they’re engineering the rules instead — redistricting maps, Electoral College workarounds, climate mandates nobody can afford. When you can’t hit the goalposts, you move them.
