Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) doesn’t have an entire lot of sympathy for President Donald Trump and different Republicans who’re complaining in regards to the Virginia referendum that’s anticipated to ship as much as 10 Democrats to Congress.
“Wah, wah, wah!” she stated on Wednesday, including that Republicans introduced this on themselves.
“Listen, Democrats have attempted and asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no,” she instructed reporters. “Republicans have fought for partisan gerrymanders across the United States of America, and these are the rules that they have set.”
The Virginia vote was a part of what has turn out to be a tit-for-tat redistricting battle that started final 12 months when Texas ― at Trump’s urging ― shifted its maps to ship extra Republicans to Congress on this 12 months’s midterm election. Other states adopted swimsuit, however, in line with most analyses, if the present maps maintain, Democrats will in the end acquire a seat or two greater than Republicans by way of redistricting.
Ocasio-Cortez stated the GOP by no means anticipated this.
“They have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over, doesn’t fight, and takes everything sitting down,” she stated.
But that didn’t occur.
“Now the Republican Party doesn’t like the fact that they are fighting against someone who actually will stand up for the American people,” she stated.
Ocasio-Cortez additionally repeated her name to finish all gerrymandering, however stated Republicans gained’t do it.
“We have the bill right here to end this all today,” she stated. “But they don’t want to because they like pursuing and continuing to enact an unfair electoral landscape. And so we have an obligation to defend ourselves.”
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