Rep. Brad Sherman Discusses Dems Fight Back against Trump
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Why are MAGA Republicans blaming Governor Newsom for California redistricting?
These MAGA Republican Congress members and politicians are crying now and blaming California Governor Gavin Newsom for redistricting in California when it was Donald Trump who ordered the MAGA Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, to do the uh redistricting right before the midterms. You've got the MAGA Republican Congress member from California, Kevin Kiley, posting the Following. We will not let Gavin Newsome destroy democracy in California. Then he went to the Wall Street Journal who Donald Trump is suing and did an op-ed saying, in today's Wall Street Journal, I set out my plan to stop Newsome's corrupt redistricting scheme and to assure it doesn't ignite a gerrymandering war across the country.
I mean, these people just make stuff up like y'all started this in Texas. Texas, the Democrats supported for the People's Act HR one in order to ban this partisan gerrymandering. I mean, this Kevin Kylie guy, this MAGA Republican congressman from California, what what what's what is he even doing here? He does like a press conference in his own office and brings the podiums. Looks so weird. Then he's been going on all of these shows and whining. Um, let me show you what he did here when he says it's Newsom who started.
Wants me gone. This is merely an attempt to eliminate political opposition, but his past attempts to target me have failed. Uh, and I'm confident that this one's gonna fail as well. Yeah, and I know that you recently introduced a bill to limit redistricting to the beginning of each decade. I know you said that Newsom is subverting the will of voters and and trying to w wipe out essentially what remains of the California Republican Party. There's only nine of you guys. Uh can you tell me more about that bill? Yeah, of course. So my concern is first and foremost for what's going on in California. And Gavin Newsom is a unique threat to democracy. He is trying to overturn the will of voters who put in place an independent citizens redistricting commission.
He's come up with a scheme to sideline that commission and to seize its powers for himself in order to draw a hyperpartisan map that, as you said, will reduce Republicans to holding nine out of fifty.
Yeah, just total sociopaths, right? They're bullies. And then you punch back. And then they go, They're coming after me. I'm the victim. They're coming after me. And then you've got this MAGA Republican candidate for uh California governor, this Steve Hilton guy. He's like, Newsom started it. Newsome started it. Here, watch this.
Well, of course, like everything else that Gavin Newsom touches, a disaster and a fake and a phony, because what he's saying there is a total lie. He's saying that his scheme to steal power back from the people and write the maps to suit Democrats is responding to Texas. That's not true at all. It's a complete lie. California started California
started it. Of course it was California who started. No, it didn't. What world are you living in? Then you had MAGA Republican Congress member Daryl Issa. Um, here's what he's got to say. Let's play it.
Well, I mean Governor Newsom fired off a Trump style tweet yesterday saying saying this Donald Trump, the lowest polling president in recent history. This is your second to last warning. The next one is the last one. Stand down now or California will counter strike legally to destroy your illegal crooked maps in red states. Press conference coming, hosted by America's favorite governor, Gavin Newsom. Final warning next, you won't like it. Thank you for your attention to this map. I mean is he is he joking? Is this is this a joke?
Well, you know, the ultimate in in false statement, the the Trump's low approval rating, it couldn't be higher. But uh from a from a more practical standpoint, look, uh in some states the voters have allowed politicians to draw their own line. In California, the voters made a decision that it was going to be done by an independent commission, and he's trying to override that so we can go back to having politicians draw a line. Lines for themselves.
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