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Ron DeSantis: “We have at least one [district] in our congressional map…”

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DeSantis All But Accuses Gina Raimondo Of Rigging Post-Census Redistricting Against Red States

Published August 21, 2025 | Video Starts at 05:57

It basically means that district has to elect a Democrat. That's the way this has been, has been interpreted over the years. We have at least one [district] in our congressional map that is configured strangely to be able to comply with that interpretation of the Voting Rights Act. People are now bringing a challenge saying, you know what Voting Rights act means. You show up to vote, if you're a lawful citizen, you get to vote. (05:57–06:09)

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Asserts that Florida's congressional map includes at least one district drawn to comply with the Voting Rights Act.

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“Every state that got shortchanged was a Republican state, and every state that got more was a Democrat state.”
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“Biden administration has since had to acknowledge that there was an undercount.”
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“Florida has been the number one state that people have sought to move to in the entire United States of America.”
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“Florida was undercounted in the most recent census.”
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“Florida should have gotten at least one more seat in Congress.”
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“The Attorney General has written a letter to the Census Bureau, the Commerce Department, copying the White House.”
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“If we get [an extra seat], that's not only an extra seat in the House of Representatives, we have 28. Now, that would also mean an…”
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“We should have had [an extra seat] in 2022 for Congress, 2024 for both Congress and the Electoral College.”
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“We are totally supportive of dealing with the issue of not having illegal aliens counted for the purpose of apportionment.”
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“The U.S. Supreme Court has accepted a case... about whether it is appropriate to use race when you're drawing districts.”
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“Florida would be forced with that as well, even if we didn't get the extra seat to go in and do a new map.”
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“I had to veto the Florida Republican legislature to veto their map last time because they drew this 200 mile district from Tallahassee to…”
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“It was purely to manufacture a certain racial composition. It was not A VRA district.”
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“We got a map in, and it ended up going to federal court and the Florida Supreme Court, and it's been upheld every time.”
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“When I got elected governor, I think we had about 21 million people. You know, now we're almost 20, 23 and a half million people in the…”
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“Our current congressional districts are reflective of that reality from 2019, the beginning of 2020.”
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“Some of these congressmen, you know, are getting 250,000 votes. Some of the others are getting like less than 200,000 votes.”
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“I remember telling everybody we were going to get two seats at the last census, and then when they came out with them, we only got one.”
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“Biden comes in, who's the Commerce Secretary overseeing the census? Former governor of Rhode Island. Did Rhode island lose a seat? No. Did…”
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