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Jeffries defends Virginia redistricting as 'temporary measure' to stop Trump from trying to 'rig' midterms

Fox News·Alexander Hall·about 1 month ago
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NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., declared in a CNN interview Tuesday that Democrats’ victorious effort to temporarily redistrict Virginia was intended to stop President Donald Trump’s "power grab." "It was important for Democrats to push back aggressively across the country to stop Donald Trump‘s gerrymandering scheme, which was designed to rig the midterm elections," Jeffries told CNN's Laura Coates. "They thought we were going to step back, but we‘ve made clear that we will fight back, and we‘re going to keep our foot on the gas pedal." Democrats scored a major victory Tuesday when Virginia voters narrowly passed a congressional redistricting referendum that could give the party a significant boost in the battle for the U.S. House of Representatives majority in this year's midterm elections, The Associated Press reported.…

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