Trump says Tennessee governor vows to redistrict state

President Trump said Thursday that he spoke with Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) about redistricting in the state to give Republicans a leg up in congressional races ahead of the November midterm elections.

The conversation comes after a Wednesday Supreme Court decision limiting the scope of the Voting Rights Act provision that creates majority-minority districts.

Trump on Truth Social said Lee “stated that he would work hard to correct the unconstitutional flaw” in the state’s congressional map.

“Likewise, all of the other Political Representatives of Tennessee have promised to do so,” he wrote. “This should give us one extra seat, and help Save our Country from the Radical Left Democrats, and their Country destroying Policies of High Tax, Open Borders, Transgender Mutilization, Defunding the Police, ICE, and Border Patrol, No Voter ID, Soft on........

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