Texas State Rep. Harrison Mocks CNN for Showing Clips Questioning Dems’ Gerrymandering: ‘I’m Incredibly Flattered’

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>> Do you have a problem if typically this only happens after the census comes out? Obviously, we see other states do this all the time. You mentioned what happened in Illinois, and that‘s a fair point to make there. But if if that‘s how it happens, are you fine with other states, Democrat run states changing this in the middle of the decade as well?
>> Well, it‘s their prerogative to do it. But I mean, I do have to point out that I don‘t know of any just about any major media CNN included, that dragged governor pritzker on TV and asked him to justify the gerrymandering in his state or California. Where I‘m looking at right now, Republicans have 40% of the vote in California, but they only give 17% of their seats to the Republicans. Same thing in New York. I mean, these are more gerrymandered than anything we‘re contemplating down here in the state of Texas. And quite frankly, what we‘re talking about doing is legal. It‘s constitutional. It‘s permissible. We should do it.
>> Well, what you‘re saying is it‘s bad when Democrats are gerrymandering. That‘s obviously what Republicans are being accused of doing. But you say, you know that no one‘s covered it. I mean, CNN certainly covered it. I heard you say this earlier. So I looked this up. We‘ve written many articles about it. And also it‘s been talked about on TV. Listen to this.
>> In states though, like.
>> Illinois.
>> Oregon, Maryland.
>> Democrats are also engaged in gerrymandering congressional districts.
>> And as a result, Democrats have really tried to put Republicans in difficult places, particularly in downstate Illinois.
>> One possible reason for kinzinger‘s.
>> Decision his Illinois district is being redrawn.
>> So I just want to be clear, we have covered it when Democrats gerrymander as well, sir.
>> Well, well, Caitlin, I know I got to tell you, I‘m incredibly flattered. The amount of times CNN must have spent fact checking what I said earlier today to come up with those clips, but if if those are the best clips you can find, then my point stand and I was proven correct because at no point was he asked to justify those maps. But here‘s the point. It wasn‘t that I was saying good, bad, right or wrong. Whether they could or should or shouldn‘t. the point is, what we‘re talking about in the state of Texas is something that is constitutional. It‘s legal. The Supreme Court has said we can do things like this. And my main criticism of the the liberal Democrat governors in California, New York, Illinois and other places isn‘t so much what the weighing in on the merits of their maps. It‘s the rank hypocrisy and the fake outrage. These Democrats, my Democrat colleagues that fled the state to go hide behind governor pritzker, they‘re not mad that states are engaging in redistricting to maximize partisan political advantage. What they‘re mad about. But they won‘t say it. They‘re mad that a Republican state is stepping up and doing it. That‘s the real problem. And that‘s the hypocrisy that I‘m trying to point out here.