Maxwell Frost
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Politicians should not be choosing their voters.
Voters should be choosing the politician.
But what's happening in California is a response to something Donald Trump is doing.
We can't be in this fight tying our hands behind our back.
This is part of the reason why people don't view Democrats in the most favorable way right now.
We have to be aggressive about the things we stand up for.
We have to be 10 toes down.
We have to be willing to fight.
And that's what we need in this moment, fighters.
And that's what Proposition 50 is all about.
And so but what I want to tell Kevin Kiley is, look, if you if you want to join forces with Democrats, get us enough votes.
Let's let's pass through something that will make sure that every single state plays by the same rules in terms of gerrymandering, because here's the problem.
the only states that have statewide independent redistricting committees are democratic states so you have democratic states doing this the right way and then you have red states gerrymandering it and making it so that way the politicians are picking the voters and that's not right there is no statewide solution to gerrymandering i'm sorry it doesn't exist it has to be a national law so let's do this now to combat trump to fight against trump and him trying to completely rig this democracy
Let's get in the power and then let's actually do the thing we're talking about, which I think is the most important part of this.
No, 100%.
And look, unfortunately, the only thing a lot of people, especially Donald Trump and Mike Johnson, understand is when you respond with the same energy that they're bringing.
And we saw Donald Trump come out a few weeks ago and say, well, at some points, I was surprised that there wasn't as much pushback.
And that's part of the issue.
We have to push back with everything we have.
And what we see is that when we're aggressive in the things that we believe in,