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Ted Cruz: “The new map they drew was 79% Republican.”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Senator Ted Cruz Slams Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes on their dangerous rhetoric

Published | Video Starts at 23:45

And one pattern you see across the country, Democrat states are overwhelmingly gerrymandered, much more than Republicans are. So what Texas did is it went from, from 65% Republican to The new map they drew was 79% Republican. So it did increase it. It would have added five new Republican seats. California responded by going from 83%. Was it 89 or 90? 92. 92. And so it would. (23:45–23:49)

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Asserts that the new Texas redistricting map increased Republican representation to 79%.

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