Democrats rally in Texas over Trump order to redraw districts: ‘The only way they can keep power is to cheat’ | US politics

In the call of Donald Trump, a hurriedly arranged attempt to redraw the Texas congress zones launched its first hearing on Thursday – but the Republicans were democrats who made most of the conversation before the public session shortened the public session.

Many of the state’s leading democratic politicians and progressive activists walked in front of Capitol before the first of the public hearing to gather a public interpretation of the proposed rediscount plan. Through a Bullhorn, he spoke to a crowd of 150 activists, who shaking signs with slogs such as önmek not votes, not the votes ,, and the Texas Republicans gave priority to reorganizing the victims of the destructive hill floods during the special session of the Legislative Assembly, and Trump was reorganized a few years ago.

“We should tell Greg Abbott to cut nonsense,” Texas Afl-Cio’s secretary-compete Leonard Aguilar said. “This special session clearly uses Trump’s political agenda to force it.”

“They’re trying to suppress it, Ağ he added. “This is. They are trying to stop black and brown voters… They know that they are in trouble and that they are in trouble and that they can control and protect the power is to cheat.”

Former US representative Beto O’Rourke reiterated the calls of the previous democrats to defeat the Republicans in their own plays, and more aggressive calls with blue states such as California, New York or Illinois.

“What if we punch it first instead of waiting for the fists thrown on the other?” O’Rourke asked the crowd by pulling his waterfall.

The GOP has solid majority in both rooms and governorships of the Texas Legislative Assembly and gave the democrats very little vehicles to prevent Republicans from redefining the map. However, both O’Rourke and a Texas state representative, Gina Hinojosa, increased the likelihood of rejecting the minimum deputies needed to pass the republicans’ nuclear option, a nuclear option used by Texas Democrats in the past.

So what are we doing? Hinojosa asked the crowd. “We are protesting. We are doing rally. We testify. And most importantly, we organize. And yes, I am ready to break the seeds with my colleagues.”

The White House’s forcing the Lone Star State to protect the majority of Trump against crumbling in the 2026 midterm elections made the Republicans a more aggressive way to Gerrymermer. The map approved by the GOP -dominated legislative council in 2021, despite gaining only 55% of the votes, is already strongly supporting the republicans holding two -thirds of the congress seats. Changing in the attempt to create new GOP -friendly zones can easily put the seats that GOP is currently at risk.

At the hearing on Thursday, members of the Republic of Parliament, democratic elected officials, voting rights activists and disappointed voters were largely silent as a parade.

“I think San Antonio’s democratic representative Joaquin Castro says that Joaquin Castro says that he is not a single republican congress member,” I think this is very strange. “

On July 7, the Ministry of Justice sent a letter to Texas officials, three of them in Houston and four regions in Houston and four regions, racially Gerrymanderl. Texas Republicans claimed that they were not, including a lawsuit for an ongoing vote law in the Federal Court in El Paso since 2021. Despite the broad concerns of the Texas Republicans, Abbott added to his 30 -day special session after talking to Trump on the phone at the beginning of this month. According to Texas Tribune.

Cody Vasut, the Republican President of the Committee, did not appear to be familiar with the letter of the Ministry of Justice, and that the 2021 map did not think that the constitutional problems raised constitutional problems or violated the federal law.

Vasut, “the president’s position, every map he voted for complying with the Constitution,” he said.

He swallowed the door of the hearing, where the committee held 50 people in a room with a seating capacity. Most of them, who came to testify, watched the living flow of the hearing in one of the three overstreaming rooms.

There were not many features for the public to comment, because MPs have not yet proposed new regional maps. However, many, state lawmakers, republicans, only 55% of the votes, while the congress seats in a state where two -thirds of the black and brown voters would dilute more concerns.

And again, the critics have repeatedly described the Republicans as the means of a president who did not keep the best interests in mind.

Angela Valenzuela, an educational professor who testified on behalf of the United Latin American Citizens League, said, “If there is something I don’t like, it’s being played.” “And you all play a great time. Respect yourself a little.”

The Democrats moved to a separate room to continue the informal public statement after Vasut refused to extend the hearing. The opponents continued to record their opposition for more than an hour. The next day, the Democrats House Democrats sent one to California, the other to Illinois – two delegations to provide strategy

According to Mark Jones, a professor at the Department of Political Science of Rice University, Texas Democrats concerned that Trump plans to use their states as a staging floor to push a wider Gerrymandering, while the effort can help strengthen the party local. While bringing the party together, he forces the Republicans to respond in a midterm elections and potentially lose chairs.

The presidents usually face mishaps in the midterm elections. A questionnaire helped to be carried out in May, and Texas voters who made a ballot in 2020 asked their voters that they would vote if the election was made today. Trump’s victory margin against the democratic candidate Kamala Harris reduced six points from 14% to 8% – perhaps an early indication that Trump’s gambling could start working against him.

“Almost all Republicans know that this is a bad idea – Texas is much more likely to help damaging the Republican political power, Jones Jones said. “But nobody doesn’t want to say ‘no’ to President Trump – because we learned what happened when you say ‘no’ to President Trump.”