“The Texas governor is a cowardly, pretend bully. He was ordered by Donald Trump to convene a particular session of the legislature in an effort to gerrymander the Texas congressional map and attempt to rig the midterm elections,” Jeffries stated in an interview on MSNBC’s “Ana Cabrera Reviews.”
Jeffries stated Democrats will reply “forcefully, aggressively and relentlessly” to the GOP effort to impose a brand new congressional map that might add as many as 5 Republican seats.
The minority chief stated Republicans try to enact a map that might shield their maintain on the bulk in Congress by taking 5 seats at present held by Democrats, “together with a number of in majority-minority communities round Austin, Houston, and Dallas, breaks them aside and tries to place them into Republican palms.”
“We’re solely three seats quick from taking again the Home,” Jeffries stated about subsequent yr’s midterm elections. “That may be a traditionally shut quantity. That’s what has Home Republicans and Donald Trump scared to demise of what will occur within the midterm election. That’s why we’re seeing this extraordinary motion in Texas.”
Requested if Democrats would reply to Abbott’s menace to cost or arrest the Democratic state legislators who fled Texas yesterday, Jeffries stated that might be instantly challenged in courtroom.
In a separate interview on CNN, Jeffries additionally stated Abbott is “out of his thoughts” and stated that the Republican governor is making “idle threats.”
The governor’s workplace did not instantly reply to a request for remark.
