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TYLER — East Texas Congressman Nathaniel Moran was interviewed on NewsNation last week to discuss redistricting efforts in Texas and trade talks in Europe.<\/p>\nTYLER — East Texas Congressman Nathaniel Moran was interviewed on NewsNation last week to discuss redistricting efforts in Texas and trade talks in Europe.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s pretty laughable that Governor Newsom should be talking about stacking the deck or playing by a different set of rules. California right now is 43 Democrats and 9 Republicans,\u201d Moran said in a July 28 interview.<\/p>\n
According to our news partner KETK,\u00a0Moran, a Republican and the U.S. Congressman for Texas District 1-Tyler, was commenting on California Governor Gavin Newsom, who\u2019s come out against Republican efforts to redraw the Texas congressional map in order to create more Republican-leaning seats in Congress.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis moment requires us to be prepared to fight fire with fire \u2014 and we won\u2019t hesitate to act if Texas Republicans move ahead with this ridiculous power grab,\u201d Newsom said.<\/p>\n
The Texas Tribune reported that Newsom has proposed redistricting California to include fewer Republican-leaning districts in response to those efforts to redistrict Texas\u2019 congressional maps.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you look at Illinois, they basically already redistricted out all but just a handful, I think just three Republicans,\u201d Moran said. \u201cSo for Democrats to cry foul in this circumstance is pretty laughable because they they have done this exact measure.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Sunday, several Texas State House Democrats said they were leaving the state in order to prevent the new congressional maps from coming to a vote, prompting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to call for their arrest.<\/p>\n
\u201cI support the immediate arrest of these rogue lawmakers who\u2019ve fled their duties. These radical Democrats are spitting in the face of every Texan they swore to represent,\u201d Paxton said. \u201cThis is cowardice and dereliction of duty, and they should face the full force of the law without apology.\u201d<\/p>\n
Moran also commented on President Trump\u2019s ongoing trade negotiations with Europe and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re not going to solve every problem that exists between those two large entities. Just in a couple months,\u201d Moran said. \u201cBut you could come up with a framework that would hopefully get us past this August deadline so that we can keep tariffs lower, give more certainty to both sides of the Atlantic, and allow businesses to make decisions going forward, knowing that we\u2019re getting closer and closer to a more fair and more reciprocal trade relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TYLER — East Texas Congressman Nathaniel Moran was interviewed on NewsNation last week to discuss redistricting efforts in Texas and trade talks in Europe. \u201cI think it\u2019s pretty laughable that Governor Newsom should be talking about stacking the deck or playing by a different set of rules. California right now is 43 Democrats and 9 … Continue reading Rep. Moran defends effort to redraw Texas congressional map<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1431743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/08\/NathanielMoran-206x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1431570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 22:06:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/08\/NathanielMoran-206x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1431570"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1432080,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431570\/revisions\/1432080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1431743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1431570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1431570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1431570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}