Talarico on Fox: The Fight Against Gerrymandering in Texas

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But when you're winning in Illinois,

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you're happy to play by these rules.

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Again, I've condemned all gerrymandering

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across the country. And in fact, when

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Democrats had a majority in Congress,

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they voted to ban gerrymandering in

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every state, red states and blue states.

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Do you know how many Republican members

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of Congress joined them in that effort?

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Which one? I'm sorry, which state did

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you just refer to?

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I'm asking, do you know how many

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Republicans joined Democrats in the US

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Congress to ban gerrymandering? All the

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Democrats voted for it. Zero Republicans

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voted for it. Zero.

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Odd. You can spare me the both sides

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rhetoric. It's clearly one side that is

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trying to rig the rules in the middle of

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the game. This is like two football

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teams coming out of the locker room at

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halftime and the team that's ahead says

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they want to change the rules for the

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second half so they can win the game.

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All of us would be throwing food at the

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TV. If that happened, we we don't accept

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cheating in our politics. We don't

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accept cheating in our relationships. We

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shouldn't accept cheating in our

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elections. You've done the same thing as

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us and we are going to by the way if you

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do it we're going to ratchet it up in

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the even more in the words of Gavin

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Newsome.

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My party has never Jerry Manner in the

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middle of the decade at the request of

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the president of the United States. Nor

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would we the only way this is going to

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happen in blue states is if Texas

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executes this power grab you mentioned

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Massachusetts. Do you know the party of

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the governor that signed that map into

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law? He was a Republican. It was a

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Republican governor that signed that map

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into law. So I just want to be I want to

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be clear with our facts and I don't want

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to muddy the waters. all of us, whether

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we're Democrats, independents, or

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Republicans, we should stand up to

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politicians who don't want to face

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accountability at the ballot box. That's

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exactly what's happening here. And I

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asked you, if Republican policies are

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popular, why do they need to redraw

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these maps? Why can't they just run on

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their policies?

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I'm I'm getting wrapped on time. Um I'm

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enjoying this conversation. I want to

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let it go on, and I apologize. That's

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such as the nature of cable television.