Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin urges fellow Democrats to 'go nuclear' in redistricting fight
BENTON HARBOR, Mich. — U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin, a rising Democratic star from Michigan, told NBC News that Democrats should “go nuclear” to counter Republicans’ push in Texas and other red states to redraw the congressional maps in their favor.
The first-term senator, who was tapped to deliver the Democratic rebuttal to President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress this year, said Democrats have to fight fire with fire.
“I’m going to urge and encourage blue states like a California or Chicago or Illinois to do the same thing. I don’t want to do that. I want the country to have a completely nonpartisan drawing of the lines based on the census. But if they’re going to do that and go nuclear, so am I,” she said in an exclusive interview after her first and only town hall of the congressional August recess on Monday night.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/michigan-sen-elissa-slotkin-democrats-nuclear-redistricting-texas-rcna223158
(Yeah, I know she called my town a "state")
🙂 🙂 🙂
Glad I'm not the only Democrat with the biscuit ready to crack open.
But I am not for any of this "if the Republicans..."
The Republicans are going to re-draw lines in red states. Short of some unlikely intervention by the Courts that won't be overturned by SCOTUS, Texas will have more red-leaning districts. And likely Florida, too.
Their legislatures control the timelines in those states and they can sit and wait until key dates pass in blue states to make it impossible for such states to redraw congressional maps.
Even in California there's no guarantee it can be done as the change will have to need voter approval in an off-election year.
And, yes, I know that some of my liberal friends will disagree with me. But that stance I would liken to a U.S. president sitting and twiddling his or her thumbs while a massive Russian nuclear missile attack is heading towards us. An attitude that, "Well, we're going to be dead anyway, no sense in taking them with us."
But it is that attidude that encourages an attack." The theory of "Mutually Assured Destruction" only works as a deterrent if the other side doesn't launch. The Republicans have launched.
The first-term senator, who was tapped to deliver the Democratic rebuttal to President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress this year, said Democrats have to fight fire with fire.
“I’m going to urge and encourage blue states like a California or Chicago or Illinois to do the same thing. I don’t want to do that. I want the country to have a completely nonpartisan drawing of the lines based on the census. But if they’re going to do that and go nuclear, so am I,” she said in an exclusive interview after her first and only town hall of the congressional August recess on Monday night.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/michigan-sen-elissa-slotkin-democrats-nuclear-redistricting-texas-rcna223158
(Yeah, I know she called my town a "state")
🙂 🙂 🙂
Glad I'm not the only Democrat with the biscuit ready to crack open.
But I am not for any of this "if the Republicans..."
The Republicans are going to re-draw lines in red states. Short of some unlikely intervention by the Courts that won't be overturned by SCOTUS, Texas will have more red-leaning districts. And likely Florida, too.
Their legislatures control the timelines in those states and they can sit and wait until key dates pass in blue states to make it impossible for such states to redraw congressional maps.
Even in California there's no guarantee it can be done as the change will have to need voter approval in an off-election year.
And, yes, I know that some of my liberal friends will disagree with me. But that stance I would liken to a U.S. president sitting and twiddling his or her thumbs while a massive Russian nuclear missile attack is heading towards us. An attitude that, "Well, we're going to be dead anyway, no sense in taking them with us."
But it is that attidude that encourages an attack." The theory of "Mutually Assured Destruction" only works as a deterrent if the other side doesn't launch. The Republicans have launched.
36-40, F
