The DeVory Darkins Show - Protestors storm Tennessee Redistricting vote as Katie Porter EXPLODES during debate

Episode Date: May 8, 2026

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Take a look. Let's remind ourselves that while we're here in this special session. Mr. Trooper, please clear out that balcony over there. Please clear out the balcony. Leader Lambert, Mr. Clerk. The Speaker, I yield the remainder of my time. The leader Lambert yields the rest of his time. We're voting.

We are voting on the bill. all those in favor of House Bill 7,03 as amended. Vote aye when the bell rings. Those opposed vote no. Has every member voted? Does any member wish to change their vote? Please take the vote. I-64-25-nays three president.

House Bill 703, having received a constitutional majority out here by the clerk passed with objection to motion resetters table. Leader Lambert, you're recognized. All right, so a couple of things happened. during this voter right after it on the House floor in Tennessee, one of the state representatives had to be escorted out of the building by law enforcement. And he had some nice things to say to them, which we'll get to.

Secondly, we knew this was going to happen. Alabama's up next. Florida already got it done. At the end of the day, Republicans may pick up an additional seven seats. Is that enough to, you know, change the outcome of the midterm election? Maybe, maybe not. A lot can happen between now and then. And three, I'm going to make a point about the voting.

Rights Act and whether or not black members of Congress are truly representing black majority districts. I'll get to that. But I want to show you what the state representative had to say to law enforcement. Take a look at this. What is wrong with you? What? What is wrong with you?

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39 of majority white congressional districts in this country is represented by a black member of Congress. What is the bottom line here? If you're running for Congress and you're black, you're more likely to get elected in a congressional district that is majority white or majority non-black than a majority black congressional district. This is the most important vote we will ever take. It's the most important vote that the Republicans will ever take. we know where we stand we stand on the right side of history this is about race and diluting the representation of blacks

and brown people in Memphis, Tennessee this is serious this is gravely serious for people people fought died were tortured for the right to vote and so for the world needs to be watching this because what is happening today will happen to the rest of the country

okay so they're making the wrong argument It's not about race. And for the record, just so you guys understand where I personally stand, this is my own opinion just based on the data. Gerrymandering is a loophole in the system that both political parties have yet to address, Congress and the Supreme Court. It's been happening since the 1800s. It's nothing new. Massachusetts kicked it off. Okay.

And so all you're seeing is the manifestation what was going to happen sooner or later. Now, having said that, the argument, again, should not be about race. but they'll make it that because that's the easy thing to do. The hard thing to do is to articulate why gerrymandering should be banned. And so it's fascinating that states are not moving to ban it, but are still moving to redistrict because that's what will continue to happen here. One more clip. This is the other problem with it.

Take a look. Do you feel it's a fair characterization or hyperbole when some Democratic politicians argue the U.S. is in a second Jim Crow era? Well, I think we're potentially on the verge of that. If you take away the tools that erased Jim Crow, and chief among them being the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and you see what legislatures are racing to do in Louisiana, in Tennessee, in Alabama, you see the beginnings,

the potential beginnings of, if not a Jim Crow era, as we have known it, a modern Jim Crow era where African-Americans, Hispanics, don't have the ability to fully express themselves when it comes to their political power. And that's really something that worries me. But again, I emphasize if partisan gerrymandering is something

that is going to be accepted by this Supreme Court, if that is the thing to say, well, it's not racial gerrymandering, it's only partisan gerrymandering. That affects white people in this country as well. It takes power away from all Americans and something that needs to be stopped. You know, every now and then we get a sponsor,

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That is 83848 to give your support of Christian foster parents today. Again, wrong argument. Black people, Hispanic people are definitely well represented. I mean, you have 61 members of Congress who are black, more that are herself. Hispanic technically. So again, that's just the wrong argument. It's not a racial thing. This is a partisan thing that should be stopped. But again, the loudest people in the room are not going to be, they're not going to stop it. Okay. Let's go to our next update. And now we're talking about what happened last night in California, which is the governor's

debate, particularly Katie Porter. And again, how, I mean, she looks unhinged just to say the least. But what I'm going to do is just focus on the policies. Starting off with a very important question. If elected governor, will you continue to support the hidespeed rail project? And I think you're going to be entertained by the answers to that question. Watch this. Another thing. Everybody has an opinion about this.

You don't need to go into detail. It'll cost another $30 billion to finish California high speed rail from Merced to Baker's Field. We've got the viaduct laid. We have overpasses. you finish it? Yes or no? Mayor Virugosa. Yes. Congresswoman Porter. Yes, if you can build it faster and cheaper than it's been projected. Okay. Sheriff Bianco. No, I would rather arrest the people that stole our money. All right. That was beyond brand for you doing things that are illegal.

No, stop spending taxpayers money on pointless things and improve our roads, which are the worst in the country because of Democrat policies. Mr. Stey. Yes, we need. Secretary of Sarah. This slow speed delivery of high speed rail, no, but a high, high speed delivery of high speed rail, yes. What does that mean? That means we get rid of all the bureaucracy that has caused all this litigation. We try to make it. I don't think it's on your desk.

Do you say yes or do you veto it? Is that to me? Yes. I said, I don't want to do it the way it's been done because we've overspent. We're going to build high speed rail. We're going to build high speed rail. Conan, I would send it back to the legislature and say fix SQL, reduce litigation risk. Let's fix the regulatory environment and then I'll sign the bill.

Okay. I think that tells you everything you need to know about what they plan to do with your money if you're in California, especially if one of these radicals get into power again. And that is what? They don't care about your money. They want it and they'll tax you to oblivion and say, we're taxing the rich. But we know what happens historically. When they scream tax the rich and they apply taxes, it trickles down.

We have four to six weeks left of fuel if the Iranian war continued. Now, if a bill comes before you, I want to know, do you sign it or do you veto it? And this bill would be whether to seek an increase in oil production in Kern County in the Central Valley. The governor of this state was not a big fan of oil. He's actually changed his tune a little bit on that. Yes or no. This is the bill. Do you sign or do you veto it?

Mayor Virigosa. Yes. Congressman Mun Porter. Can you repeat the question? So would you advocate for an increase in oil production? in the state. Western states point? No. No. All right. All right. Very good. Mr. Sherpianco.

Absolutely. Mr. Hilton. We don't need a bill. I'll get it done directly as governor by instructing the California department of geologic and energy management to open up oil production. This is the problem with Democrats' endless legislation instead of just getting the job done. We're going to veto it next time. Mr. Steyer. No. All right. Mr. Secretary Bicera.

Versus importing? Yes. Mayor. Yes, we also should stop pushing all of our refining capacity out of state and importing dirtier oil from thousands of miles away. It doesn't make sense. No, it doesn't make sense. But Governor Gavin Newsom defends it, right? He says California is the national model for success.

The fourth largest economy in the world, these are the talking points, right? You guys have heard them time and time again. I mean, somewhere along the line, it should be illegal for what they have done to California. Just politics aside. For what you're doing to or what they've done to California should be gross negligence. I mean, it violates just common sense overall and financial literacy. And what do you expect is going to happen when you're importing more oil than you are producing internally? You slap on a gas tax.

Then you kick the or you force the refineries out of the state where one of them is willing to pay a billion to leave, what do you think is going to happen? So I think it's important to recognize that our sanctuary laws are only as good as the enforcement of them. We have entities right now, including local sheriffs, including state agencies in a lot of our counties that are violating sanctuary law. He says he wants to enforce the sanctuary law. He wants to do away with the sanctuary law policy.

That's because he doesn't want to have to follow it. Every Californian deserves the protection. of their governor. Every Californian deserves the protection of their governor. Exactly. They do deserve the protection of the governor. So why is innocent Californians being killed by illegal aliens? Yeah, she won't talk about that.

In fact, when you bring up countless fatal outcomes of American citizens at the hand of illegal aliens, they look the other way. It's not a talking point for them. They don't want to accept it as a fact. but it is one. And it's just common sense to mean, when you allow people to cross the border in the millions, unvetted, some of them are just criminals. There's no doubt about it.

You know what the fascinating part is if you just go on to the actual website for ICE, they list every single person they've arrested and their rap sheet. But we live in a time today where people will just ignore the facts. They don't care about that. Let me say this. ICE is a criminal organization. They're coming into our state. They're terrorizing people.

They're racially profiling people and they're harming people and committing violence against them. I'm in favor of abolishing ICE. But along the way, I did push for the sanctuary state law, which I absolutely believe in. But more than that, we should be prosecuting ICE agents for racial profiling. It's illegal in the state of California. We should be prosecuting them for violence against Californians. It's illegal. And we should go up the chain to the people who asked them to commit violence, including Stephen Miller.

The truth is we should be investigating their detention. centers that they will not show that are dangerous and they won't let anyone in. And I guess you can figure why. See, we wouldn't need the nationwide facilities if Joe Biden never opened the border. If he just did half of what Obama did, I don't think we'd be talking about this today. But he didn't do anything. In fact, he did the polar opposite intentionally. It was like a badge on their sleeve to say the border was wide open.

please come in. They went so far in giving thousands of dollars on a debit card luxury hotels for these individuals. Now, what signal does that send to the rest of the world? What signal does that send to criminals? Behind every crisis in America, there is a criminal waiting to take advantage. They won't talk about that either. This whole fraud situation that's going on across the country, yeah, scammers have been

standing by to take advantage still. There are people scamming off the scammers. Democratic Katie Porter enthusiastically said she supports taxpayer-funded health care for illegal immigrants during a California primary debate. At least she's honest, right? That's important. At least she tells you where she stands. Look at that. I do appreciate that.

But the question remains, who's going to pay for that? Do you guys know? Where's the money going to come from? I mean, I think we ought to enforce the existing sanctuary laws everywhere. So we don't have crazy cowboys taking the law into their own house. Tell that to a crazy mother who lost her child. Sir, I don't need any lectures from you about being a mother. Of course.

You might. Okay. Wow, did you see that look that she gave him? I'm telling you, she's crazy. She's got anger problems. No doubt about that. And people literally are going to vote for her just so you understand. But listen, those are my thoughts or this has been my thoughts about these stories.

Why don't you share with me yours in the comment section? What did you make up Tennessee and what they're doing? Overall, jerrymandering as a whole. And then what did you think of that state representative, how to be escorted in his language that he decided to use towards law enforcement officers? And then what did you think of the California governor primary debate? I think it's really going to show us what's coming. If we don't get our act together, that is.

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