On Tuesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Last Word,” Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) argued that Republicans “understood that the only way to maintain a majority in the House of Representatives” “was if they cheated, if they went after seats in places like Texas, which is why the president started this effort.”
Host Lawrence O’Donnell asked: “You just came from the House of Representatives to the governorship in this last election. In your opinion, what would it mean if Republicans could conspire with Donald Trump to increase the number of Republicans in the House of Representatives so that they could hold on to control of the House of Representatives for two more years?”
Spanberger responded: “Well, I think they understood very well that the only way they could maintain a majority in the House of Representatives (of course, they have a very, very small majority right now) was if they cheated, if they went after seats in places like Texas, which is why the president started this effort. Because he knew that, in the midterm elections, like in 2018, when I was first elected to Congress, his poor leadership, the chaos that he is creating, the war he has started with Iran, the prices “gas prices have skyrocketed, failed promise after failed promise, would be enough to fuel another blue wave midterm, in the 2026 midterm elections.”
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