NYC's lone House Republican pledges to defeat Democrat redistricting threat to her seat
EXCLUSIVE: The lone House Republican representing part of New York City is facing a redistricting threat, and she has vowed to defeat it."The Democrats have absolutely zero shame," Rep. Nicole...
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EXCLUSIVE: The lone House Republican representing part of New York City is facing a redistricting threat, and she has vowed to defeat it. "The Democrats have absolutely zero shame," Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., told Fox News Digital. "This is the third time they are trying to redraw our district, to tilt the scale and change the rules to give their party an advantage because they just cannot — they cannot — tolerate a Republican representing the city of New York." Malliotakis represents New York's 11th Congressional District, which covers all of Staten Island and parts of south Brooklyn. She won her seat in 2020, defeating one-term former Rep. Max Rose, D-N.Y., who was elected in the "blue wave" of 2018. The Empire State was thrown into the national redistricting war last week when Democrat attorney Marc Elias' law firm filed a suit aimed at changing the boundaries of Malliotakis' district. LONE MARYLAND GOP CONGRESSMAN WARNS REDISTRICTING COULD CUT WHITE HOUSE TIES FOR ENTIRE STATE The lawsuit argued that the existing district dilutes the voting power of Staten Island's growing Black and Latino voting populations, allegedly running afoul of minority protections in the New York Voting Rights Act. "This lawsuit is so frivolous, it has absolutely no merit. It has absolutely no legal, valid argument," Malliotakis said. The New York City Republican pointed to her own non-White roots, being born to a Cuban mother exiled by the communist Fidel Castro regime. Her father is from Greece. MEXICAN IMMIGRANT-TURNED-CONGRESSWOMAN BLASTS DEM CLAIMS TEXAS REDISTRICTING HURTS HISPANIC VOTE "The fact that they're claiming somehow Hispanics and minorities are disenfranchised when I'm the first Hispanic elected to represent the district makes it even more ridiculous," she said. "It's unfortunate that this will take time and resources to fight once again in court, but we will do that because the people of New York's 11th district deserve to elect the person that they want, not who…