Chuck Todd Calls Out NY Dem on ‘Gerrymandering’ After Party Proposed Map That Could Cut GOP Delegation in Half

After Democrats spent years blasting Republicans for their redistricting efforts, NBC’s 📺Chuck Todd is calling out the party over its proposed Congressional map in New York.

During an appearance on NBC on Tuesday, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney(D-N.Y.), the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, was confronted about his party’s proposed Congressional map that could slash the number of Republican-held seats in New York in half.

“Let’s talk about redistricting and the New York map and the idea of gerrymandering. The Democratic Party, in general, is against gerrymandering. HR-1 would like to see it put to an end,” Todd said, adding, “I think you’re for it when it comes to the case of New York in 2022. Try to square that circle for me.”

Maloney responded, “It’s pretty easy. We won the House races in 2020 by 4.7 million votes, and we lost 12, 13 seats in the House. So you tell me how the House of Representatives, that represents the population, one side wins the majority vote and loses seats. If the House doesn’t reflect the majority will, what the heck is it?”

He went on:

“So that tells you what kind of map we’re dealing with right now. So we can argue for fair districts and pick up Democratic seats because the Republicans have gerrymandered it all to hell over the last couple of cycles. And this time in the courts and in the legislatures we are making the case, and in New York, that communities of interest, what the law allows in New York, means that New York, which has been voting overwhelmingly Democratic in recent elections, should have representatives in the House that reflect that.”

It is true that Democratic House candidates won more votes