Careful What You Cheat For SCOTUS, It Could Comeback & Bite You #ABlueView🧵1/2
Even though TX did something *this* SCOTUS says is illegal (using racial rationals for their new gerrymander) this SCOTUS approved their racially-designed maps.
This could spectacularly backfire ...
🧵2/2 ... As These Two Posts Laid Out:
"Careful What You Cheat For GOP, It Could Comeback & Bite You" https://twp.ai/SACm2E
"New Latino Poll is Bad for Trump, the GOP & TX Redistricting"
https://twp.ai/NTXWqA
Careful What You Cheat For GOP, It Could Comeback & Bite You #ABlueView🧵1/3 Trump & the TX GOP are shifting R voters from R to D districts, making each more purple. Further, these districts are heavily Latino & most were just won for the first time ever. They might be making a losing bet.
🧵3/3 I discovered a new name for this:
#Dummymandering - the term for what Republicans are doing in their national redistricting drive to weaken their support in Republican districts at the precise moment Trump & the Republicans are becoming historically unpopular.
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