Hakeem Jeffries Shreds Trump's Texas Redistricting Plan: It Will Triple 'The Extreme Racial Gerrymandering'

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During a press briefing on Thursday, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) spoke about a map released by the Texas legislature showing their plan for a congressional redistricting in the state.

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00:00And now we'll take questions.

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00:05If you look at other states, Republican and Democratic,

00:09the percentage hold by the congressional delegation far outweighs the percent vote of the statewide.

00:16Texas is actually behind the curve in states like Florida and California and Illinois

00:21in their percentage hold on the congressional delegation.

00:23How is this different than what's going on in other states?

00:26We believe that the Texas congressional map is already gerrymandered for a whole host of reasons,

00:32and that litigation is currently in court.

00:35And we believe that the three-judge panel will likely decide that the current map violates the Voting Rights Act

00:44because it is undermining the ability of communities of color led by the Latino community to elect the candidate of their choice.

00:55Each state and whether it's in compliance with the law has to be evaluated based on the demographics of that state.

01:04And when you evaluate the demographics here in the state of Texas, as has been illustrated,

01:11the current map violates the law.

01:14And this congressional map will double and triple down on the extreme racial gerrymandering that is silencing the voices of millions of Texans.

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