But it's because mid-decade, it's because that's what President Trump is asking them to do. As McCarthy protested, Bash played a clip of Trump saying he wanted just a very simple redrawing of Texas. We pick up five seats. Bash claimed, If that was a Democratic president asking, starting this whole thing mid-decade, asking a Democratic-controlled legislature to redraw the maps and pick up five seats, you would understandably be hitting the roof.
The President's federal deployment of the National Guard over the official wishes of a governor is bad for all Americans concerned about freedom of speech and states rights.