Ro Khanna

If somebody fell asleep in 1896 and woke up today in 2026, they would simply say the only difference is now Negroes have a TV show and we wear nice suits.

They swapped out Klan hoods for Brooks Brothers suits.

And that is the problem.

I mean, Plessy v. Ferguson was 7-1, and it gave birth to 50 years of Jim Crow.

What we have with this court right now, what we're seeing is watching people who have fought and died and bled so that we would have access to the ballot box, so that we would have access to our voices being heard in Congress being ripped away.

We're still going to win the House.

The reason we're going to win the House is gas prices are up.

Food prices are up.

People don't like the fact that we're in a war in Iran.

They don't like the fact that the Trump administration hasn't released the Epstein files or held the Epstein class accountable.

But I was very disappointed in the Virginia Supreme Court overturning an election.

And then you have the Supreme Court basically taking away black districts in the Deep South that Dr. King and John Lewis fought for.

So this isn't about winning the House.

We're going to win back the House anyway.

This is about reversing some of the progress we made in the civil rights movement.

Well, there was an election.

I believe that the voters of Virginia clearly spoke, and the Virginia Supreme Court should have deferred to what the Virginia voters wanted.

But the bigger problem, in my view, I mean, I'm opposed to that Virginia decision, but the bigger problem is the Supreme Court, which is basically saying, you can take away Jim Clyburn's district in South Carolina.

I mean, think about that.

For 100 years after Jim Crow, we did not have a single black member in South Carolina.