There will be once she gets on Twitter about it lol
Equally important as what he’s actually done is that he’s advertising it imo.
I’ll believe it when I see it but
Jeffries and his allies have designed plans for the next two years to push Democratic-held states to set aside nonpartisan redistricting rules or gerrymander even more aggressively, with an eye toward producing a dozen or more new Democratic-held seats by November 2028, people familiar with the matter said. They’re eying seats from Oregon to New York in an effort that will cost hundreds of millions of dollars more in the next two years.
And they’re willing to put an uncomfortable spotlight on members of their own party to do it.
“The days of Democrats unilaterally disarming are over, particularly given how high the stakes are,” Jeffries told CNN.
Behind the scenes, the House minority leader’s allies are preparing a messaging push against any Democrats who stand in the way of gerrymandering, insisting that only “real Democrats” are willing to fight, according to one person close to Jeffries.
Jeffries’ push is likely to accelerate Republicans’ efforts to gain even more red-leaning seats in states they control — something critics of gerrymandering in both parties acknowledge.
“It’s almost a race to the bottom,” said Rep. Cleo Fields of Louisiana, who could lose his seat now that his state has been cleared to redraw its maps.
But he said Democrats in blue states have a responsibility to do something.
“The Democratic Party has always taken the moral high ground. It’s always been, ‘We can’t do this because it’s not the right thing to do,’” Fields told CNN. “I think they all need to rethink that. At least short term.”
I’ve always said, I think the only solution to gerrymandering is for both parties to lean super hard into it, then eventually one party that’s in power decides that the future of it is too unpredictable (even though they’re currently benefitting) and they just say “fuck it” and legislate fair districting into existence nationally.
I’m skeptical that anyone could decide on what constitutes fair in our election system. I think we should lean into the gerrymandering and just let the minority party draw the lines each time around. It will create swings, but I don’t think that’s nearly as bad as one party entrenching itself indefinitely.
The problem with that, is it’s not the goal of the elected people in the party to avoid unpredictability at a national level, it’s a goal to avoid it in their specific district and do everything they can to remove any possibility they get removed from power. In that world they will always want to gerrymander to give them safer elections. A lot of the time they’ll even work across the aisle to entrench incumbents from both parties!
Also gerrymandering is always going to be more predictable by design. Obviously wave elections can cause issues, but the majority of the time it works - that’s why people do it.
Speculation on my part, but I think Tusli resigning is directly tied to this:
Wyden has been a hero.
Trump admin wouldn’t care about anything Tulsi did that was illegal or inappropriate or whatever. She’s been on the outs ever since bombing Iran because she didn’t love bombing Iran. If she’s being investigated for something now, that’s the excuse, not the reason.
Congrats Dumbocrats!
This happened before Iran, and she’s been sidelined way before Iran.
Venezuela too. I don’t give her any credit because Trump is the worst president in history and she joined that administration and then she should have resigned a long time ago, but this is not her foreign policy. It’s a lot more neocon, like Marco rubio.
There’s also the fact that she’s a russian asset, and the reason she was against Trump’s warmongering is not because she’s against war, but because she’s against harming russia in any way.
That just sounds like flag waving to me.
It’s not.
Points to Senator Andy Kim showing up at Delaney Hall. Used his oversight authority to get in and observe the conditions and talk to some of the folks inside. Is going to try to pass legislation to reform/close some of the centers. He also stood with the protestors outside the center and got teargassed for his troubles.
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