On Sunday, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) spoke to CNN's Dana Bash about proposed redistricting in New York in response to gerrymandering in Texas.
00:00I want to move on to other issues, but first I do just have to ask, you talk a lot about Texas, as do other Democrats.
00:07You supported a move in your state of New York where Democrats, you wanted to throw out congressional maps that were drawn by the state's Independent Redistricting Commission.
00:18You praised New York's state legislature for redrawing new ones.
00:23Is criticizing Texas hypocritical given what you push for in your own state?
00:30Yeah, so let's go into the actual facts.
00:35The map was not drawn by the Independent Redistricting Commission.
00:40The map was drawn by a special master who was put into place by a random right-wing judge in Steuben County.
00:49That was problem number one.
00:51Now, the court then ordered a redraw so that the process could actually be completed consistent with the Constitution of the state of New York.
01:04And that is what occurred.
01:06Third, what's important is that in New York, the redrawn map that was actually adopted by the legislature was adopted on a bipartisan basis.
01:15Democrats and Republicans in the assembly voted for the map because the redraw was fair.
01:25That's not what's happening in Texas.
01:27In Texas, this is a racial, partisan gerrymander ordered by Donald Trump as part of an effort to rig the midterm elections.
01:36And we're not going to let it happen.
01:39And at the end of the day, we were 24 seats down during Donald Trump's first midterm election in 2018.
01:46We won 40 seats in 2018.
01:49There's no way that Republicans can mathematically gerrymander their way to an artificial victory next year.
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