Former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) mentioned Wednesday that a set of new Home traces proposed by Texas Republicans is “undermining the range that we have to have” in Congress.
“Let me simply say that what you simply described was the elimination of many minority seats in Texas, and that is unlucky, as a result of the gerrymandering that they are doing can also be undermining the range that we have to have within the Congress,” Pelosi advised CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead.”
On Wednesday, Texas Republicans launched a instructed set of latest Home traces, putting their occasion nearer to gaining 5 seats in 2026. The freshly proposed map will possible largely instantly influence lawmakers located close to or within the Dallas-Fort Price Space, Austin, Houston and the southern border.
Democrats are hungry to regain energy in Congress after their losses final November, which have left them debating what brought on them to fail in that election.
Later in Tapper’s present, he interviewed current Home Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who mentioned that his occasion will “defy historical past once we develop the bulk within the Home” in subsequent 12 months’s midterm elections.
“We’ve a strong, hardworking Republican majority within the Home proper now — and the Senate — we’re delivering for the folks. And I’m very excited to exit and inform that story,” Johnson advised Tapper.
“I’m very excited concerning the midterm election. You realize that we’re going to defy historical past once we develop the bulk within the Home, as a result of it’s solely twice within the final 90 years {that a} sitting president has picked up seats for his occasion in that first election cycle, however we’re going to do it this time,” the Louisiana Republican added.