Chris Hayes praised Democrats with faint damnation, so to talk, on Friday, marveling that he was “genuinely shocked” to see them truly combat again in opposition to the Republican Celebration as a substitute of, as he put it, “rolling over.”
The inspiration for this blunt evaluation of the Democratic Celebration was the passage Thursday of a vital election invoice by the California legislature on Thursday, as Hayes defined within the introductory portion of Thursday’s episode of “All In.”
“We’re all so used to Democrats primarily rolling over, not actively combating again with all they should disposal in opposition to MAGA abuses of energy that, I gotta say, I’m genuinely shocked tonight,” Hayes started.
“As a result of earlier immediately, they did it. The California legislature moved in a short time and voted in favor of revising their state’s congressional maps with a measure known as the Election Rigging Response Act. The vote got here in response to the ability seize by Texas Republicans, ordered by Donald Trump to gerrymander their state mid-decade… so as to add in 5 new Republican leaning districts.”
After taking part in clips of Democratic responses to that scheme, Hayes talked about California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who he stated “has been speaking a really large recreation. He’s been trolling Trump on social media, promising to reply in form if Texas lawmakers went via with their brazen plan.”
“They really did it,” Hayes stated referring to California democrats and sounding barely in disbelief.
For these nonetheless catching up, the ERRA is a direct response to the Trump-backed Texas gerrymandering scheme that eradicated 5 Democratic districts in Texas. That extraordinarily uncommon mid-decade redistricting — the final time it occurred was in 2003, in Texas, for primarily the identical causes — is meant particularly to mitigate the unpopularity of Trump-era insurance policies by making it inconceivable for Democrats to retake the Home of Representatives within the 2026 mid-terms.
Trump has additionally been pushing different GOP strongholds like Florida and Indiana to equally kill Dem districts, and in response blue states like New York and California are wanting into redistricting of their very own.
The ERRA would create a brand new congressional map for California with 5 new Democratic districts and 4 swing districts. Complicating issues, per a 2008 poll initiative, a nonpartisan fee attracts up congressional maps. As such, the ERRA should be accredited by voters in a particular election scheduled for Nov. 4. If it passes, the brand new districts will solely be in impact for the 2026, 2028 and 2030 elections — via the 2030 census, in different phrases — after which they’d revert again to the unbiased redistricting fee.
Hayes defined these points, after which spoke to California Meeting member Isaac Bryan, after which to Senator Elizabeth Warren. You possibly can watch the entire section beneath:
