Texas Gov. Greg Abbott went on Fox News Monday to defend the GOP’s ongoing efforts to gerrymander his state’s congressional map. Responding to California Gov. Gavin Newsom's warning that he would take similar actions “to offset the rigging of maps in red states,” Abbott made a grotesque promise.

"I’ll tell you this, if California thinks that they're going to move their needle to the extreme and eliminate 5 Republican members of the United States Congress there, Texas is not going to do 5—we'll add 10 more Republican seats using the same procedure they're using in California,” Abbott said. “We have more Democrat seats that can turn into Republican seats than they have Republican seats, in California, that they can turn into Democrat seats."

In response to the GOP’s gerrymandering, Texas D

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