Texas Governor Greg Abbott was on “Sunday Morning Futures” with host Maria Bartiromo to talk about redistricting.
Governor Abbott explained that the Democrats have drawn lines to favor their party largely based on race and that the Supreme Court ruled that this is no longer allowed.
“Give us your assessment of the impact of the Supreme Court rulings, and what are you expecting the impact to be of these new maps?” Bartiromo asked.
“The Supreme Court ruling in the Louisiana case is similar to the Supreme Court ruling in the Texas case. The Supreme Court just applied a principle that most Americans already understood,” Abbott said.
“For example, in a hiring decision in the United States, everybody knows an employer cannot engage in racial discrimination. Now the court is just making it clear that the same hiring decision when voters hire who their member of Congress is going to be there cannot be racial discrimination,” Abbott continued.
“The fact of the matter is, for decades, the Democrats have been using racial discrimination to draw these crazily drawn lines to try to protect Democrats,” Abbott said.
“We are going to eliminate using race to draw these Congressional lines. It means that, especially in the southern states, we are going to add maybe a dozen more Republicans to the United States Congress,” Abbott explained.
“We will finally make those districts look a whole lot more compact,” Abbott said.
Governor Abbott used the New England states as an example of Democrat control. He explained that with many Republican voters, there is no representation of them in Congress in those states due to the drawing of district lines based on race.
“In all of the New England states, there are millions of Republican voters, and yet there are zero Republicans who represent New England in the United States Congress,” Abbott continued.
Source: The Gateway Pundit
