Posted on 07/28/2025 10:04:40 AM PDT by John Semmens
Former US Representative, US Senate candidate and 2020 Democratic presidential contender Beto O'Rourke (D-Tex) went on CNN's State of the Union to tell host Jake Tapper that "we have to be absolutely ruthless about getting back in power. So, yes, in California, in Illinois, in New York, wherever we have the trifecta of power, we have to use that to its absolute extent."
"Take the California Assembly, for example," O'Rourke said, "Democrats out number Republicans 60 to 19. In the Senate it's 30 to 10. Democrats have the votes to gerrymander every state Republican out of their seats. We can do the same to the 9 Republicans currently holding seats in Congress."
Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed repealing the state law which vested the power to redraw congressional maps to a nonpartisan independent commission, saying "we have the votes to effectively eliminate every Republican office holder in the state. Getting rid of these fascists will protect our democracy from their evil machinations. If other Democrat-majority states do the same we can achieve the national unity that former President Biden couldn't. We could sit around talking about the way the world should be. Or, we can seize the power to remake the world."
The Democrat Party has always been ruthless. What do you think slavery, the Trail of Tears, the ku klux klan, and infanticide are?
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