Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., briefly sparred with CBS' Margaret Brennan on Sunday over his claims that President Donald Trump will “rig” the midterm elections.
Throughout an interview on “Face the Nation,” Brennan pressed the New York consultant about his previous feedback insisting there have been “no election deniers” within the Democratic Social gathering regardless of just lately suggesting the upcoming midterms might be “rigged elections.”
“Democrats had been appalled when President Trump used language like that,” Brennan mentioned. “How do you justify utilizing that now? Doesn't that undermine religion for voters it's essential to present up?”
“No, I've been utilizing that time period within the context of Donald Trump's unprecedented effort to gerrymander congressional maps in a partisan trend all throughout the nation with a purpose to rig the midterm elections and deny the power of the American individuals to truly determine who needs to be within the majority because it pertains to the Home of Representatives,” Jeffries mentioned.
“You already know Democrats are additionally going via gerrymandering and redistricting,” Brennan interrupted.
“No. No. No. Effectively, Democrats are going to push again aggressively to ensure that we've got honest maps throughout the nation, not partisan gerrymandering, which Republicans have initiated in state after state after state,” Jeffries insisted.
The interview concluded shortly after that change.
Jeffries was beforehand pressed about his assist for redistricting in blue states, together with his personal, whereas attacking pink state redistricting throughout an August interview with CNN's Dana Bash.
“You praised New York's state legislature for redrawing new ones,” Bash mentioned. “Is criticizing Texas hypocritical given what you pushed for in your personal state?”
Bash additionally identified that Jeffries had been in opposition to redrawing New York's congressional maps in 2022.
“What's vital is that in New York, the redrawn map that was truly adopted by the legislature was adopted on a bipartisan foundation,” Jeffries mentioned. “Democrats and Republicans within the Meeting voted for the map as a result of the redraw was honest. That's not what's taking place in Texas. In Texas, it is a racial partisan gerrymander ordered by Donald Trump as a part of an effort to rig the midterm elections. And we're not going to let it occur.”
