At a House Democratic news conference after the midterms, Hakeem Jeffries says Republican operatives close to the president predicted the gerrymandering scheme would yield them 16 seats. He says every Democratic incumbent in a gerrymandered district in Texas, North Carolina, Ohio and Florida came back, and that Democrats flipped seats in Ohio, Tennessee and North Carolina while holding every gerrymandered seat in Florida.
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- Hakeem Jeffries
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- briefing - House Democratic Leader news conference after the midterms
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You have Republican operatives close to the president saying that the gerrymandering scheme was going to yield them 16 seats, 16 seats. Every single Democratic incumbent in a gerrymandered district came back. Every single one. In Texas, in North Carolina, in Ohio, in Florida, Florida. Every single one came back. And in those states that were gerrymandered, we flipped seats in Ohio. We flipped a seat in Tennessee. We flipped seven seats in North Carolina. We We held every single gerrymandered seat in Florida.
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