Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker Isn'T Pulling Punchs. He Called Donald Trump in “Cheater” and Blasted Texas Gov. Greg Abbott As a “Joke” for Their Bizarre Attamps to RedistTrict Texas in Way that would unfairly Give Republicans More Seats in Congress As the Gop Tries to Stave off a Blue Wave in the 2026 Midterm Element.
Pritzker's State Is Hosting Texas Democrats living Texas in order to Deny a quorum and stall republican legislates' deeds at gerrymandering. Abbott has threatened to arrest the lawmakers Who left the state, and republican sen. John cornyn has said the fbi is helping efforts to return the legislates to texas.
Responding to comments from Abbott, Who Called Illinois' Congressal Map a “Joke,” Pritzker Said, “Governor Abbott is the Joke. He's the One Who is dealer Mid-Decade here, at Time When Frankly All of Us Are About the Future of Democracy, He's Literally Helping Whittle It Away and Licking The Boots of His Leader, Donald Trump. ”
Pritzker Defended Illinois' Process of Creating Its District Map. “Here in Illinois, we follow the Law. We provide a map and passed a Map That Follow the Voting Rights Act and the Constitution and the Laws of the State of Illinois,” Pitzker Said. “[Abbott is] HIGGING TO THWART Federal Law and Take Away Five Seats that are in the Hands of Black, Brown, Minority Congress People and the People That they repire. He's Taking Those Votes Away. He's Violating the Constitution. ”
In Most States, The Legislature Redraws Congressal Districts Once Everyry 10 Years After the US census is released. TRUMP IS ALULEDY TALKING ABOUT PLANS TO REDESIGN THE 2030 CENSUS TO Exclude undocumed Immigrants, Despite the Constitution Saying that the census Must Count “The Whole Number of Persons in Each State.” Trump Also Messed with the 2020 census, Leading to Undolcounts in AT Least Six States and OvercoTots in Eight Other States. (The 2010 census, for Comparison, Did Not Contain Any UndercoTots or OvercoTots.) He Also Tried to Add a Citizenship question to the census, but a Federal Judge BloCked it.
Pritzker Said That Trump's Motives To Change the Makeup of Congress Demstrate His Fears of Possible Losses in the Upcoming 2026 Midterterm Element: “He's Attimening To Change the Game Because He passeed That Big Ugly Bill That's Hyper-Unpopeular in Texas, Among People in Texas and Texas and Across the Country.
“It's cheating. Donald Trump is a cheater. He cheats on his wides
Congressal Democrats, for Once, Are At Least Talking Like They are Prepared to Strongly Counter Trump's Efforts with RedistTricting of Their Own. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is “Talking to Other States” About Potential RedistTricting Plans, Axios Reported.
“The republicans are counting on that as part of their Scheme to Try to steal the midterter elections and gerrymander these Congressal Maps with Impunity,” Jeffries Said in An interview with Abc News Last Week.
Democratic Governors in California and New York Have Threatened to RedistTrict Their Own States To Combat Republic Changes in Texas While The Gop Eyes Ohio, Indiana, Missouri and Florida As Its Next Gerrymandering Targets.
“I Think There's Broad Agreement by Democrats That … We Simply Can't Stand by and Let The Republican Party Completely Ruin The Map,” Democratic Rep. Joe Morelle Told Axios. “The Base and Those of Us in Elected Office Feel Equally OutTRaged by What is happy.”
Eric Holder, Who serve as Actney General Under former president Barack Obama and Now Leads the National Democratic RedistTricting Committee, Said Even IF Democrats Do Redistrtic Their States, It would be “Responsive” and “Temporary.”
“When Barack Obama was president, when Joe Biden was president, Did Either of Those President Call a govern of a State or A State Leglatures and Tell Them to Gerrymander to Find Five Seats For Them? No,” Holder Said. “So we're doing Something now that is responsive to what is going on with this White House.”
Holder appeared Trump's Efforts to RedistTrict Texas to Trump's Attamps to Influence Georgia's Secretary of State to “Find” Him More Votes After the 2020 Element.
“That call to texas is Kind of Reminiscent of the call that president Trump made to the secretary of state in Georgia,” Holder Told Nb's Kristen Welker on Sunday. “He Said, 'Find me 11,780 votes.' He calls Texas Now and Says, 'Well, Find Me Five Seats So That We Can Save the House in 2026.'
