House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday that California's effort to redraw House lines will not only succeed, but other Democratic states will pursue similar redistricting efforts ahead of next year's midterms.

“We are not going to let Republicans successfully rig the midterm elections,” Jeffries told reporters in the Capitol. “California is just the first Democratic state to respond. It will not be the last.”

He did not specify which other Democratic states might launch a redistricting effort, but party leaders in Illinois, New York and Maryland have all expressed some degree of interest in doing so.

California voters are set to vote next month on Proposition 50, a referendum empowering the Democrats who control the state government to redraw the House map. The unus

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