{"id":72187,"date":"2026-04-20T10:55:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/eric-holder-accuses-gop-of-stealing-seats-while-defending-fair-democratic-redistricting-push\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T10:55:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:55:53","slug":"eric-holder-accuses-gop-of-stealing-seats-while-defending-fair-democratic-redistricting-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/eric-holder-accuses-gop-of-stealing-seats-while-defending-fair-democratic-redistricting-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Holder accuses GOP of ‘stealing seats’ while defending ‘fair’ Democratic redistricting push"},"content":{"rendered":"

Top Virginia redistricting proponent and former Attorney General Eric Holder<\/a> defended Democrats\u2019 proposed changes to the Old Dominion\u2019s congressional map, accusing Republicans of “stealing seats” in Missouri and Texas.<\/p>\n

Voters go to the polls Tuesday to decide whether to “restore fairness” \u2014 in the words of the Democrat-crafted referendum itself \u2014 by essentially approving a new congressional map that would redraw Virginia’s districts<\/a> to favor Democrats over Republicans 10-1.<\/p>\n

In a CBS News interview<\/a>, anchor Margaret Brennan pressed Holder on the need for a new map, noting that a president\u2019s party \u2014 in this case the GOP \u2014 already historically underperforms in midterm elections.<\/p>\n

Holder denied the move is an acknowledgment that the Democratic Party can\u2019t win “on its own” and said that they can definitely win if it is a fair fight.<\/p>\n

GLENN YOUNGKIN ACCUSES GOV SPANBERGER OF ‘ILLEGAL AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL’ GERRYMANDERING IN VIRGINIA MAP FIGHT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“What were we supposed to do, nothing?” Holder asked, citing Texas\u2019 decision to redraw its districts at the behest of President Donald Trump<\/a> and similar Republican-led redistricting efforts in Missouri and North Carolina.<\/p>\n

Holder did not mention that Indiana legislative Republicans balked at calls to similarly redraw their map to favor the GOP, and Maryland Democrats also rejected a push to redraw their districts, ultimately preserving House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris\u2019 Eastern Shore seat.<\/p>\n

Holder said Democrats couldn\u2019t allow Republicans to “stack the deck” nationally and “try to steal seats.”<\/p>\n

“All we are trying to do is meet them and try to make the system as fair as it possibly can be, and that\u2019s all this is about,” he said.<\/p>\n

Holder\u2019s comments sparked online criticism, as Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and others pushed back on the former Obama “wingman\u2019s” logic.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s only partisan gerrymandering and \u2018stealing seats\u2019 when Republicans do it,” Lee said on X.<\/p>\n

VA DEM REJECTS \u2018POWER GRAB\u2019 CLAIMS ON SPANBERGER REDISTRICTING AS GOP WARNS 10\u20131 MAP WOULD SPLIT RURAL VOTE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“When it\u2019s Democrats, it\u2019s about \u2018making the system as fair as it can be\u2019 — Democrat logic<\/a> is exhausting.”<\/p>\n

Fox News contributor and media critic Joe Concha noted that Brennan also did not bring up several recent case of Democrats doing exactly what Holder criticized Republicans for.<\/p>\n

“Margaret didn\u2019t bother to push back and bring up the fact that several blue states have done this for years,” Concha said.<\/p>\n

Critics have often pointed to the fact that the entirety of New England lacks a Republican member of congress, despite the true D-to-R population proportion.<\/p>\n

Like the proposed Virginia map<\/a>, which includes several districts painstakingly drawn into Fairfax County and another intentionally drawn to connect interior cities like Charlottesville, Lynchburg and Roanoke, Democratic states like Illinois have created similar awkwardly-drawn maps.<\/p>\n

Reps. Eric Sorensen and Nikki Budzinski\u2019s districts notably form thin, arcing lines connecting various Illinois cities that are otherwise nowhere near each other and not in a straight line or contour.<\/p>\n

Sorensen\u2019s covers Rockford, Moline, Peoria and Bloomington, while Budzinski\u2019s snakes from East St. Louis to Decatur and Urbana while incidentally collecting a thin line of rural areas that happen to be in between.<\/p>\n

In Maryland<\/a>, until recently, the third district was in several distinct pieces connected only by waterways and tributaries \u2014 to the extent a federal judge derisively called it a “broken-winged pterodactyl” flying over Balt-Wash suburbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Top Virginia redistricting proponent and former Attorney General Eric Holder defended Democrats\u2019 proposed changes to the Old Dominion\u2019s congressional map, accusing Republicans of “stealing seats” in Missouri and Texas. Voters go to the polls Tuesday to decide whether to “restore fairness” \u2014 in the words of the Democrat-crafted referendum itself \u2014 by essentially approving a … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}