Look at that Illinois map…
Late-night host Stephen Colbert confronted Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday with a graphic of Illinois’ gerrymandered congressional districts, drawing attention to the state’s own partisan map amid national scrutiny of Republican-led redistricting efforts in Texas.
“If you are considering doing a little more redrawing in Illinois, you already have some crazy districts in Illinois. Take a look at this. Look at [district] 17 here. It does that, then it comes up here, and it sneaks around there and goes all the way up here and then goes right over there like that,” Colbert said, describing the districts. “Is this common for all states to do?”
Pritzker joked that a kindergarten class drew the map.
Colbert joked that one Illinois district looks like “a stinger on a scorpion.”
“So because all states to a certain extent do this, why is what Texas [is] doing particularly egregious in this case?” Colbert followed up.
Pritzker, who could have 2028 White House aspirations, pivoted to attacking Texas Republicans redrawing maps “at the behest of Donald Trump” and “doing it mid-decade.”
“That is extraordinarily rare,” Pritzker claimed. “And the way they are doing it is taking voting rights away from Black and Brown people. They are literally obliterating districts that were written according to the Voting Rights Act. So this is going to end up in court if they are actually able to do it.”
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