Beto O’Rourke: DEMS must retaliate on Texas republican redistribution efforts

While Texas Republicans are trying to redraw their Congress districts to expand their majority in the House of Representatives of the United States before the competitive mid-term elections expected in 2026, former representative Beto O’Rourke, D-Texas, said that Democrats should “meet the fire”.

The 2020 Democratic presidential candidate told the former Biden adviser on Tuesday, Neera Tanden at the Center for American Progress (CAP), that he supports the attempt by California Gavin Newsom of the Blue State to deepen the control of the Democrats Congress.

O’Rourke rationalized the redistribution of California because “we already have an authoritarian president”. And although he recognized the irony of his party which followed the costume on something that the Democrats “do not like the Republicans,” said O’Rourke, “it is for the future and the fate of the Republic. We lose it, you will never recover it.”

“Not only should I think that (Newsom) should do it, but I don’t think it should wait for Texas,” said O’Rourke. “In other words, why do the FKs do we answer and react to the other side instead of taking the offensive on these things?”

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Former American representative Beto O’Rourke speaks to participants during a “Our Fight, Our Future” rally at Millennium Bowling on October 2, 2024 in Austin, Texas (Brandon Bell / Getty Images)

O’Rourke criticized the Democratic Party for taking care “more to be right” than “to be in power”. He said that the Democrats, who are struggling with the control of the White House and the Congress in 2024, “must be ruthlessly concentrated on the victory of power”.

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If the Democrats do not retaliate, O’Rourke said: “A state that was already something less than democracy is about to descend even more.”

The GOP Controlled Legislative Assembly of States in Texas A special session began on Monday, and one of the key elements of their program is the push of the Republicans of the Red State to redraw the current Congress cards in order to reduce the number of districts controlled by already marginalized Democrats.

This is part of a wider effort of the GOP across the country to keep control of the room and the losses of cushion elsewhere in the country, because the ruling party is traditionally confronted with political opposites and loses seats.

And president Donald Trump Aims to prevent what happened during his first mandate, when the Democrats seized a majority in the House in the middle of 2018.

“Texas will be the biggest,” said the president to journalists last week because he predicted the number of user -friendly seats of the GOP which could be added by redistribution in The Lone Star State. “Just a simple redrawn, we collect five seats.”

Then the president elected Donald Trump speaks to Americafest, Sunday December 22, 2024, in Phoenix. (Rick Scuteri)

A few hours earlier, Trump had an appeal with the Republican Delegation of Texas, and sources confirmed to Fox News that the president declared to the legislators that he was aimed at redrawing the cards to create five new winning seats.

The Democrats only control 12 of the 38 districts of the State Congress, with a vacant blue seat after the death of March of the representative Sylvester Turner.

The idea is to move the democratic voters of competitive seats in the nearby GOP districts and to move republican voters in the neighboring districts that Democrats are currently controlling.

Governor Greg Abbott And Lieutenant-Governor Dan Patrick, both conservative Republicans and Trump allies, said they were to redirect due to constitutional concerns raised by the Ministry of Justice on a handful of districts dominated by minorities.

“By coincidence or not, each of these seats is held by a democrat who is black or Mexican-American,” said O’Rourke on Tuesday. “This is what they do. These are members of the Congress who choose their own voters, literally.”

Rediscussing generally takes place at the beginning of each decade, based on the latest data in the American census. Rediscussing at mid -December is rare – but not unprecedented.

Texas governor Greg Abbott said that Texas should redistingu because of the constitutional concerns raised by the Ministry of Justice on a handful of districts dominated by minorities. (Shelby Tauber / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The Democrats slam Trump and the Texas Republicans for what they describe as a takeover, and promising to bring legal action to prevent any change in the current Congress cards, as the leader of the minority of the Hakeem Jeffries Chamber, DN.Y., said: “Democrats will grow aggressively because it is the right thing to do.”

“Two can play this game”, California Governor Gavin Newsom wrote on social networks last week.

The next day, after a meeting, the Democrats of the California Congress Delegation said they were on board with an ambitious plan to try to win at least five seats per redistribution. Democrats currently control 43 of the 52 districts of the Golden State congress.

But it will not be easy to implement the change, because in California, the Congress cards are fired by an independent commission which is not supposed to leave the partisanary influencing their work.

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Newsom This week suggested that the legislature under Democratic Control of the State should go ahead with a royalty of mid-December of cards, arguing that it may not be prohibited by the 17-year voting initiative which created the independent committee.

The governor also quickly proposed a special election to repeal the commission before the mid-term elections of 2026.

The two plans are considered to be long shots, because they would be confronted with many legislative, legal and financial obstacles.