Texas Gov. Greg Abbott went on Fox Information Monday to defend the GOP’s ongoing efforts to gerrymander his state’s congressional map. Responding to California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s warning that he would take comparable actions “to offset the rigging of maps in crimson states,” Abbott made a grotesque promise.
“I’ll let you know this, if California thinks that they’ll transfer their needle to the acute and remove 5 Republican members of the US Congress there, Texas is just not going to do 5—we’ll add 10 extra Republican seats utilizing the identical process they’re utilizing in California,” Abbott mentioned. “Now we have extra Democrat seats that may flip into Republican seats than they’ve Republican seats, in California, that they will flip into Democrat seats.”
In response to the GOP’s gerrymandering, Texas Democratic lawmakers have left the state to protest what state Rep. Ann Johnson referred to as a “majority [that] has actually gone off the rails.”
Governors from Illinois, California, and New York have all signaled their willingness to battle fireplace with fireplace, vowing to offset the injury being executed in Texas by taking comparable actions in their very own states.
In the meantime, Abbott has continued to escalate his rhetoric round degrading voting energy in Texas, showing on right-wing media to promise more and more disproportionate GOP illustration in Congress.
Fox Information continues to feed a gentle stream of right-wing pablum, together with celeb gossip and non-existent crime statistics, to distract its viewers from the Texas GOP’s efforts to rig midterm elections.
Polling exhibits that almost all People oppose partisan gerrymandering. However below strain from President Donald Trump, the GOP continues its sample of ignoring the desire of the folks—plowing forward to consolidate minority rule.
