Jeffries spars with CBS over ‘rigged elections’ claims about Trump

Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries spoke briefly with CBS’ Margaret Brennan on Sunday about his claims that President Donald Trump will “rig” the midterm elections.

Throughout an interview on “Face the Nation,” Brennan pressed the New York consultant about his previous feedback wherein he insisted there have been “no election deniers” within the Democratic Celebration, regardless of not too long ago suggesting that the upcoming midterm elections might be a “rigged election.”

“Democrats have been shocked when President Trump used such language,” Brennan stated. “How do you justify that? Would not that undermine voters’ confidence that you must present up?”

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Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries denied on CBS that recommendations the midterm elections might be rigged may undermine the election. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu/Getty Photos)

“No, I used that time period within the context of Donald Trump’s unprecedented try to restructure congressional maps throughout the nation in a partisan method in an effort to manipulate the midterm elections and deny the power of the American individuals to really resolve who ought to be within the majority on the subject of the Home of Representatives,” Jeffries stated.

“You realize the Democrats additionally should cope with gerrymandering and redistricting,” Brennan interrupted.

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“No. No. No. Effectively, Democrats are going to push again aggressively to verify we now have honest maps throughout the nation, and never partisan gerrymandering, which Republicans have initiated in state after state after state,” Jeffries insisted.

The interview ended shortly after that dialog.

Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries defended latest efforts to redistrict blue states like New York. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters)

Jeffries was beforehand pressed about his assist for redistricting in blue states, together with his personal, whereas attacking pink state redistricting throughout an August interview with CNN’s Dana Bash.

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“You praised the New York State Legislature for redesigning new legislatures,” Bash stated. “Is criticizing Texas hypocritical contemplating what you have been pushing for in your individual state?”

Bash additionally identified that Jeffries was towards redrawing New York’s congressional maps in 2022.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries claimed that President Donald Trump plans to “rig” the midterm elections by way of pink state redistricting. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP Picture)

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“What’s essential is that in New York, the redrawn map that was really handed by the Legislature was handed on a bipartisan foundation,” Jeffries stated. “Democrats and Republicans within the Meeting voted for the map as a result of the redraw was honest. That’s not what is occurring in Texas. In Texas, this can be a racial, partisan gerrymander ordered by Donald Trump as a part of an effort to rig the midterm elections. And we is not going to let it occur.”