Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) said in a Sunday interview that he is actively looking into redistricting options in his state, as the partisan effort expands across the country.
“When I say all options are on the table, all options are on the table,” Moore said in an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation.”
Asked if he’s “actively looking” at redistricting now, Moore told moderator Margaret Brennan, “Yes, and I think we have to because I think what’s happened is this is what people hate about politics in the first place.”
Moore blamed President Trump and his insistence that Texas Republicans move forward with rewriting their congressional lines in order to give the GOP five more pick-up opportunities in the next election cycle.
He compared that push to Trump’s notorious call to Georgia election officials after losing the 2020 presidential race, asking them to find 11,780 votes to overturn the president’s loss in the state.
“The fact that the President of the United States — very similar to what he did in Georgia, where he called up a series of voter registrants and said, I need you to find me more votes — We’re watching the same thing now, where he’s calling up legislatures around the country and saying, ‘I need you to find me more congressional districts,’” Moore said.
With Texas poised to approve its newly redrawn maps, Republicans are plowing forward with plans for redistricting in several other states, including Florida, Indiana and Missouri, signaling a new phase of the fight.
Democrats have undertaken a similar endeavor in California, as the partisan effort expands throughout the country.
Moore, an up-and-coming star in the Democratic Party, said his commitment is to making sure “we have fair lines and fair seats, where we don’t have situations where politicians are choosing voters, but that voters actually have a chance to choose their elected officials.”
“We need to be able to have fair maps,” he continued. “And we also need to make sure that, if the President of the United States is putting his finger on the scale to try to manipulate elections because he knows that his policies cannot win in a ballot box, then it behooves each and every one of us to be able to keep all options on the table to ensure that the voters’ voices can actually be heard.”
