"A Bad Look": Even Chuck Todd Gets Irony Of Texas Dems Fleeing To Illin
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Even former NBC anchor Chuck Todd recognized the irony in play when Texas Democrats, unable to win their state legislature�s redistricting fight by legitimate means, fled to the highly gerrymandered state of Illinois for
refuge when they broke quorum in protest.
Todd, the longtime host of NBC�s �Meet the Press,� made the comments during
an appearance on �CNN News Central� after some 51 Texas legislators fled to Chicago to stop the progress of a Republican-driven redistricting plan � a
plan they complain is �gerrymandered� and could tip as many as five congressional seats toward the GOP.
WATCH:
NEW: Chuck Todd *BLASTS* Texas Dems for protesting gerrymandering
by leeing to gerrymandered Illinois
�I think it�s a bad look for a party that claims to be always
trying to protect the democracy.�@DailyCaller
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�It seems as if the strategy is: bring more attention to this, make everybody uncomfortable. Right? The more painful you make the process in Texas, the
more it�s hard to replicate. Maybe there isn�t � they may be � their own colleagues aren�t as interested in this. Congressional Republicans that serve in Texas, whose districts are actually going to get impacted negatively, also secretly are kind of hoping this goes away, too. And I think they think the longer � the more painful they can make this in doing it � maybe there�s a
way to shut this down,� Todd said of the redistricting process.
But then he pivoted to address the fact that the Democrats had fled to
Illinois � in part because Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzker had expressed solidarity with them in the fight against the new maps � noting that when it comes to gerrymandering, Illinois is home of the real professionals.
�The part that I think is sort of bad � I think it�s a bad look for a party that claims to be always trying to protect the democracy � is to hole up in a state that gerrymanders: the state of Illinois. I mean, one of the worst � Texas, Florida, Illinois, and Maryland � those are your four giant gerrymandered states. And if you�re trying to make a point on gerrymandering,
I don�t think I�d be going to the state of Illinois as a place to hide,� he explained.
Illinois redrew district maps in 2021 in a successful effort to wrest control of two Republican seats � one of them belonging at the time to Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) � ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.
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