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The Political HQ @ThePoliticalHQHouse Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says that after the VRA decision, Democrats are prepared to redraw congressional maps in New York, Illinois, Maryland, and Colorado ahead of the 2028 elections.
___All options are on the table as we get through the 2026 election and look to the future, Jeffries told POLITICO by phone Thursday. As many governors have already indicated, we will be prepared to respond in states like New York, Illinois and Maryland, as well as in Colorado, in advance of the 2028 election.
Republicans have concluded that they need to cheat to win, and the Supreme Court conservatives have decided to aid and abet their scheme. Democrats are going to fight back with every tool available, Jeffries said.
Were looking at every opportunity to ensure that communities of color will continue to have the chance to elect the candidate of their choice in districts that have traditionally been covered by the Voting Rights Act, he said, while at the same time doing what is necessary, as occurred in California, to decisively respond to efforts by Republicans to gerrymander congressional maps.
In the same way that House Democrats completely defied expectations as it relates to stopping the Republican effort to rig the midterm elections we will respond forcefully, creatively and decisively in order to ensure that there will be free and fair elections moving forward into the future, Jeffries said.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/30/hakeem-jeffries-voting-rights-act-gerrymandering-redistricting-2026-midterms-00900661
watch Leader Jeffries with Jen Psaki yesterday:
Any time NY gets to wipe Florida out, I'm on board.
Lovie777
(23,442 posts)Dems win both houses.
In It to Win It
(12,712 posts)MichMan
(17,307 posts)Just pass legislation that Republicans are ineligible to be on the ballot
In It to Win It
(12,712 posts)sheshe2
(98,151 posts)Thank you Leader Jeffries.
Cha
(320,110 posts)SSJVegeta
(2,981 posts)kerry-is-my-prez
(10,317 posts)mnhtnbb
(33,464 posts)to handle the liars, bullies, racists, misogynists, gay bashers, and fascists who are Repubs. The ONLY way to handle a fu*kin' school yard bully is to knock him out, stomp on him while he's down, and then roll him to the curb/gutter. I would really like to see the Dems take the gloves off.
The whole world is wondering when we are going to put a stop to this destruction of the American experiment in democracy. Is it finally time?
Bengus81
(10,305 posts)A million time worse now..........
paleotn
(22,535 posts)Abject failure. If anything is hampering our party, it's that goddamn "college professor" politics the last couple of decades.
Politics has always been a dirty business and always will be. The only question is, are we going to do what's necessary to win. Too often, many on the left confuse governing and politics. They are not the same. And are only linked by the fact that you have to do the politics thing well before you get to do the governing thing. Our approval of that is as irrelevant as our opinion on the sun rising in the east. It is what it is.
Fil1957
(798 posts)gerrymandering is a thing of the past. Until then, we have to hit them as hard as they hit us, using the weapons they use. Legally of course.
paleotn
(22,535 posts)politics will always devolve into a mud throwing match. That's unchangeable human nature and we as a nation are a case in point. As soon as the deified George Washington left office, politics returned to it's normal state. A bare knuckle brawl. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson had no qualms about it. Adams' son took it to a new level against Jackson. It's been a rough and tumble fight ever since.
Martin68
(27,984 posts)gerrymandering. If our democracy survives this onslaught and we ever return to sanity, this court will be considered worse than the court that protected slavery and legalized "separate but equal."