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Democrats are preventing tooth and nail to cease Texas lawmakers’ plan to redraw the state’s congressional map, however critics, together with one outstanding member of their very own social gathering, say they do not precisely maintain the ethical excessive floor.
Democrat legislators have fled the state to keep away from votes on redistricting, which is predicted so as to add extra Republican seats to Congress for the Lone Star State. They’re getting the rock-star remedy as they go to blue states, the place a number of governors have vowed to gerrymander Republicans out of their very own Congressional delegations in retaliation for the Texas effort.
CALIFORNIA LAUNCHES REDISTRICTING FIGHT TO ‘NULLIFY’ TEXAS GOP PLAN, WITH DEMS POISED TO GAIN 5 SEATS
Texas state lawmakers board a bus following a press convention on the DuPage County Democratic Social gathering headquarters on August 03, 2025 in Carol Stream, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Photos)
Nonetheless, Democratic strategist Julian Epstein instructed “Fox Information Reside” on Saturday that his social gathering will not be immune from criticism, as many blue states have already gerrymandered in a method that limits Republican congressional illustration.
“No, I feel they don’t have the ethical authority, and there’s a number of pearl-clutching happening,” he mentioned.
A number of blue states, together with Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Mexico, haven’t any Republicans of their Home delegations. And lots of characteristic oddly-drawn districts, seemingly crafted to restrict GOP illustration.
“The Democrats don’t have clear palms right here. You take a look at states like Massachusetts, New Jersey[…] Illinois, California, and Democrats have successfully gerrymandered Republicans out of existence,” Epstein added.
NETWORKS POUNCE ON REPUBLICAN REDISTRICTING. THEY DIDN’T CARE WHEN DEMOCRATS DID IT
J.B. Pritzker, governor of Illinois, left, and State Consultant Gene Wu, a Democrat from Texas, throughout a information convention on the Democratic Social gathering of DuPage County workplace in Carol Stream, Illinois, US, on Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025.
Epstein cautioned that the nationwide redistricting battle might create a “race to the underside,” and that leaving Republicans and Democrats in states led by the other events might result in individuals feeling ignored of the democratic course of. Epstein cited New Jersey, wherein Trump garnered 46% of the vote in 2024, however Republicans solely have three out of the 12 congressional seats.
In the meantime, Texas state Rep. Brian Harrison, a Republican, instructed Fox Information Digital on Saturday that Democrats are responsible of “whole hypocrisy and pretend outrage.”
“The soiled little secret is Democrats haven’t any downside in anyway with states redrawing their congressional maps to maximise partisan political benefit. They’re simply livid that Republican states are beginning to redraw their maps,” Harrison mentioned.
TEXAS DEMOCRATS FLEE STATE TO BLOCK TRUMP-BACKED REDISTRICTING VOTE IN DRAMATIC LEGISLATIVE MOVE
California Gov. Gavin Newsom attends a press convention, July 2, 2025 in Burbank, California. (Carlin Stiehl / Los Angeles Occasions by way of Getty Photos)
“It is as a result of Democrat state after Democrat state, for a decade, has been gerrymandering the hell out of their congressional maps,” he mentioned.
“Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, Rhode Island, Delaware, all of those states have zero. When you’re a Republican in these Democrat states, you haven’t any voice in Congress,” he added. “And [there are] many, many extra which have given you only one seat, Oregon, I feel Maine and Maryland.”
In California, a particular election is prone to happen in November to counteract the Texas redistricting plan.
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“We’re speaking about emergency measures to answer what’s taking place in Texas, and we’ll nullify what occurs in Texas,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom mentioned on Friday with some Texas state lawmakers.
“We’ll decide up 5 seats with the consent of the individuals. And that’s the distinction between the strategy we’re taking and the strategy they’re taking,” Newsom added. “We’re doing it on a brief foundation. We’re doing it in a completely clear method and we’re doing it by asking the individuals of the state of California for his or her consent and assist.”
Harrison defined that Texas’s redistricting push has quite a few causes behind it, together with the inhabitants progress within the Lone Star state because the final census.
