This is Democrats’ ‘ULTIMATE POWER PLAY’: Guy Benson

Added: 2026-05-13

[00:00:00]All of this just two weeks after the Supreme Court's ruling on the Voting Rights Act.

[00:00:05]>> Let's bring in Fox News political analyst and host of the Guy Benson Show on Fox News Radio. Guy Benson. Um, they have cried, not Wolf, but racism enough that it falls on our now deaf ears. Guy, >> yep. It's exhausting. It's one note.

[00:00:25]It's every single time. Voter suppression, racism, white supremacy, etc., etc. Now, there's a couple things that you can say here. Number one, South Carolina has to get rid of a racially gerrymandered district, if that's what that last Democratic district is. You can also say Republicans should not go maximalist on redistricting, maybe create a competitive district. I'm not sure a constant race to the bottom in terms of just gerrymandering everything for one party or another is healthy for the country broadly, but it does sort of give part of the game away when you hear comments from like Roana like we just heard uh recited there a moment ago where he's saying, "Oh, this would deny a black person the ability to serve in Congress when, as Tim Scott points out, he himself served in Congress in a nonraially gerrymandered district and then was elected by the people of South Carolina repeatedly to the US Senate statewide. And when you hear Democrats and people in the media lament this possibility that Jim Clyurn would be thrown out of a job conceivably and no black person get could get elected in South Carolina as a result. They either don't think about the existence of a black politician that they don't like or they feel like he doesn't really count for their point cuz what they're talking about is Democrats not skin color which is their ultimate power play beef here truly at its core. You know, you rais an interesting point, guy, about so so you've kind of got drawing the maps and what effect that we think it'll have in the short term, but you've got voters who have viewpoints about this as well.

[00:02:03]I've talked to more than a few people who just look at all of the map redrawing and they end up feeling like they're just pawns in the politicians game to secure seats or whatever. Do you think in some of these states you're going to see some surprising voter backlash to the fact that the maps are being redrawn in a hurry for the midterms?

[00:02:24]>> It's possible. I mean, look, several months ago, Indiana Republicans had an off-ramp moment where they tried to deescalate in these spiraling wars and they said no to President Trump in the White House. A lot of Republicans in the Senate there said no. And then the response from Virginia Democrats was to escalate dramatically with their paragraph. Now, they did it illegally as it turns out and so it's all been wiped away by the Supreme Court there and they're having a tantrum over that. But the goal was to escalate and win four new seats and eradicate the fair map that they had in Virginia. So, I think a lot of Republican voters saw what the Virginia Democrats did and said, "Okay, if this is how it's going to be, game on." and you saw a bunch of Republicans primared out of their Senate seats in Indiana in favor of people who'd backed the White House. Maybe we'll see some recriminations in places like South Carolina with primary battles. I don't hate the idea of trying to deescalate, but it only works if both parties are willing to do it. And the Virginia Democrats, I think, really did great harm with their illegal scheme.

[00:03:33]uh being from the Commonwealth originally, they just outwardly treated uh the Hicks and the Hay Seeds and the Rednecks and the Hillbillies uh openly the way that they've always treated us privately >> um or in in governing the state. But guy, the reason the argument from Republicans and conservatives has always been we're not we're not going to play nice guy because if you give an inch to the Democrats, they will take the state.

[00:04:11]Uh they will, you know, if you hand them a a spoon, they'll figure out a way to cut you with it. Uh so that and you saw that in what they've even discussed in the Commonwealth of Virginia, >> right?

[00:04:26]>> Yeah. I mean this is the problem. I would like to see good faith negotiations and something of a climb down from both sides after punch after counter punch has been thrown. But in order to feel comfortable in a climb down in some sort of compromise, there has to be a good faith partner on the other side. And I think a lot of conservatives and Republicans have come to the conclusion that you have, Don, which is the Democrats right now in this country are not a good faith operation.

[00:04:54]They are a power at all costs operation.

[00:04:57]And when they're out there saying things like, "Hey, we should pack the Supreme Court and add US states and maybe abolish the entire state supreme court of Virginia." And the list goes on of these crazy illiberal schemes that they're openly discussing for their own power interests. It's hard to then look at those same people and say, "Let's make a deal, you know." Yeah, we'll we will climb down. That's tough. It's a tough cell.

[00:05:21]>> Yeah, tough cell indeed. Guy Benson, great to see you. Thanks for joining us tonight.

[00:05:25]Thank you.