Cory Booker Wakes Democrats Up And Tells Them To Gerrymander To Stop Trump

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said that Democrats can't play by a different set of rules than Republicans, so if Trump gerrymanders, Democrats need to as well, because they must win the midterm election.

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Sen. Cory Booker is one of the Democratic members of Congress who gets it. Booker understands the urgency of the situation that the nation is in, and has been loudly encouraging Democrats to do what needs to be done in order to stop Trump.

Booker was asked on CNN if he agreed that Democrats should fight back against Trump’s gerrymandering of Texas with their own gerrymanders.

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Sen. Booker answered:

Look, I remember one of my best basketball games of my life, where we were down at halftime and I looked at my coach and I said, coach, they're fouling us. And the ref isn't calling them.

And then my coach looked at me, then you fouled them. And so, I'm telling you right now, I want to see election reform. I'm sick of the gerrymandering.

But if Donald Trump is going to push to gerrymander Texas, he's going to break the rules in order to win. He can't win by the rules they are right now. So, he thinks you should break the rules.

For Democrats to sit back and just say, okay, were going to play by the queens rules -- no, I'm telling you right now, we need to win in the midterm. We need to stop him from cheating, from lying, and from stealing the election.

And if they're doing something to add their congressional seats, we need to look at our ways of doing that right now. But we have to restore democracy. That kind of stuff actually undermines democracy as a whole, and we need leaders who are going to say, this is wrong, and we need to get back to passing the legislation that Democrats have proposed, which is an end to partisan gerrymandering -- partisan gerrymandering on their side, partisan gerrymandering on our side.

And that's why I'm supporting the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. That's why I'm supporting what was H.R. One in the last time the Democrats controlled it, which are to end these kind of voting games that are being played and allow for fair elections. And we should all be standing up and saying that.