Hakeem Jeffries: We Worked Hard to Hold Some of the Seats Challenged by Republicans in the Gerrymandering Scheme

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JEFFRIES: "Well, we certainly are going to fight hard to make sure that we aggressively advance the John Robert Lewis voting rights advancement act so we can end the era of voter suppression in the United States of America once and for all. We worked hard to make sure that we held some of the seats that were most aggressively challenged by Republicans in terms of unleashing this unprecedented gerrymandering scheme. We defeated the Republican scheme in Missouri that was trying to rip away a congressional district from reverend Emanuel Cleaver. He’s coming back to the United States Congress. Don Davis successfully defeated a Republican gerrymander in North Carolina. He’s coming back. Shamari figures also ran a great race. I campaigned with him on the final weekend in Alabama. They tried to gerrymander his seat out of existence and rip it away from African American voters in the heart of the belt. That brought us the civil rights movement. And shamari fingers is coming back, and we’ll build upon this progress to ensure that we have a Congress that continues to reflect the American people in every possible way."