“I am against partisan and racial gerrymandering and by saying that I don’t think I’m being weak to the interests of my party. I think Democrats, progressives will do just fine if the system is fair, we’ll have the advantage we deserve,” he told reporters on a call Friday. “If you look at New York, if you look at the population shifts in New York, New York is even more urban than it was, there are much fewer rural votes, you would expect a decrease of Republican seats. That’s not a function of gerrymandering, that is a function of the number of people there, their partisan proclivities, as opposed to what you are going to see in Ohio, Texas, Georgia, regardless of what voters want.”

Source: Washington Post September 27, 2021 10:40 UTC