House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has declined to oppose a Texas gerrymandering effort that could maintain Republicans' control of Congress. Still, he has insisted that a similar move by Democrats in California was an "illegal power grab.""Gavin Newsom's latest attempt to disenfranchise millions of ...
The reason he says this kinda shit is for the base because they don’t read news from “left” sources. So to the people that only watch Fox news and the like they will only see what California is doing but not Texas (or think that Texas is doing it in response to California). They basically take the left’s talking points as pointers and twist it into their own because they know republican voters will never fact check them and take everything at face value with no further thought.