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Top Virginia redistricting proponent and former Attorney General Eric Holder<\/a> defended Democrats\u2019 proposed changes to the Old Dominion\u2019s congressional map, accusing Republicans of “stealing seats” in Missouri and Texas.<\/p>\n

Voters go to the polls Tuesday to decide whether to “restore fairness” \u2014 in the words of the Democrat-crafted referendum itself \u2014 by essentially approving a new congressional map that would redraw Virginia’s districts<\/a> to favor Democrats over Republicans 10-1.<\/p>\n

In a CBS News interview<\/a>, anchor Margaret Brennan pressed Holder on the need for a new map, noting that a president\u2019s party \u2014 in this case the GOP \u2014 already historically underperforms in midterm elections.<\/p>\n

Holder denied the move is an acknowledgment that the Democratic Party can\u2019t win “on its own” and said that they can definitely win if it is a fair fight.<\/p>\n

GLENN YOUNGKIN ACCUSES GOV SPANBERGER OF ‘ILLEGAL AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL’ GERRYMANDERING IN VIRGINIA MAP FIGHT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“What were we supposed to do, nothing?” Holder asked, citing Texas\u2019 decision to redraw its districts at the behest of President Donald Trump<\/a> and similar Republican-led redistricting efforts in Missouri and North Carolina.<\/p>\n

Holder did not mention that Indiana legislative Republicans balked at calls to similarly redraw their map to favor the GOP, and Maryland Democrats also rejected a push to redraw their districts, ultimately preserving House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris\u2019 Eastern Shore seat.<\/p>\n

Holder said Democrats couldn\u2019t allow Republicans to “stack the deck” nationally and “try to steal seats.”<\/p>\n

“All we are trying to do is meet them and try to make the system as fair as it possibly can be, and that\u2019s all this is about,” he said.<\/p>\n

Holder\u2019s comments sparked online criticism, as Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and others pushed back on the former Obama “wingman\u2019s” logic.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s only partisan gerrymandering and \u2018stealing seats\u2019 when Republicans do it,” Lee said on X.<\/p>\n

VA DEM REJECTS \u2018POWER GRAB\u2019 CLAIMS ON SPANBERGER REDISTRICTING AS GOP WARNS 10\u20131 MAP WOULD SPLIT RURAL VOTE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“When it\u2019s Democrats, it\u2019s about \u2018making the system as fair as it can be\u2019 — Democrat logic<\/a> is exhausting.”<\/p>\n

Fox News contributor and media critic Joe Concha noted that Brennan also did not bring up several recent case of Democrats doing exactly what Holder criticized Republicans for.<\/p>\n

“Margaret didn\u2019t bother to push back and bring up the fact that several blue states have done this for years,” Concha said.<\/p>\n

Critics have often pointed to the fact that the entirety of New England lacks a Republican member of congress, despite the true D-to-R population proportion.<\/p>\n

Like the proposed Virginia map<\/a>, which includes several districts painstakingly drawn into Fairfax County and another intentionally drawn to connect interior cities like Charlottesville, Lynchburg and Roanoke, Democratic states like Illinois have created similar awkwardly-drawn maps.<\/p>\n

Reps. Eric Sorensen and Nikki Budzinski\u2019s districts notably form thin, arcing lines connecting various Illinois cities that are otherwise nowhere near each other and not in a straight line or contour.<\/p>\n

Sorensen\u2019s covers Rockford, Moline, Peoria and Bloomington, while Budzinski\u2019s snakes from East St. Louis to Decatur and Urbana while incidentally collecting a thin line of rural areas that happen to be in between.<\/p>\n

In Maryland<\/a>, until recently, the third district was in several distinct pieces connected only by waterways and tributaries \u2014 to the extent a federal judge derisively called it a “broken-winged pterodactyl” flying over Balt-Wash suburbs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/eric-holder-accuses-gop-stealing-seats-while-defending-fair-democratic-redistricting-push <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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