… I saw them like this was incredibly harmful and discriminatory to the people of Texas, particularly those that look just like El Paso. This administration came in with a request. Donald Trump made a request that he wanted five additional seats, and he gave Greg Abbott a letter that was bogus from the beginning. Greg Abbott used that letter as the justification to start drawing these maps all over again. But that letter was false. It was. There was a clear racial intent. (02:53–03:01)
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Asserts that Trump requested five additional seats and provided a false letter to Greg Abbott.
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