Greg Abbott: “We're creating five new seats where the residents and voters…”

“We are no longer requiring coalition districts and we are able to ensure that voters in the state of Texas who are voting for Congress get to vote for their candidate of choice. We're creating five new seats where the residents and voters in those districts, they voted for Donald Trump. but they were also, against their will, packed in a district where they had to exist under a Democrat member of Congress. We're just redrawing the lines as fully authorized by law.” (01:14–01:22)

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