WATCH: Eric Holder voices crazy theory about Texas redistricting

Former Attorney General Eric Holder claimed Monday that the Texas redistricting effort could affect the certification of the 2028 presidential election, but ignored a crucial constitutional provision.

Democrats in the Texas state Legislature fled to Illinois and New York in order to thwart a special session of the body to consider redistricting that could net Republicans up to five seats in the United States House of Representatives. Holder told “The Weeknight” co-host Symone Sanders Townsend that the implications of the Texas redistricting went beyond the 2026 midterm elections.

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“This is not a Texas problem. Yeah, this the focus of this issue is Texas. But this is a national problem. And you got to understand, if somehow, some way Republicans are able to hold on to the House next year, and in spite of the fact that I think they should lose because of, you know, the big budget bill that, you know, took health care away from millions of people, they gave tax breaks to billionaires who didn’t need it,” Holder claimed. “If they were somehow able to hold on to the House in 2026, that is the House of Representatives that would have to certify who won the presidential election come 2028, 2029.”

“Now, if you want to play with fire and that’s what we’re doing here, you put in a bunch of partisan hacks who are not supposed to be in the House, who are there because of gerrymandering and a whole range of other things that Republicans are doing, and then put at risk the possibility that that body would not certify who the next president was. That is a that’s why this is a national problem,” Holder continued.

The 2028 presidential election would actually be certified on Jan. 6, 2029, by the members of the House of Representatives elected on Nov. 7, 2028, who would take office on Jan. 3, 2029, under the terms of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution.

New York redrew its congressional districts after the 2022 midterm elections, creating a map that endangered as many as six out of the 11 Republicans elected to the House of Representatives.

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