Texas state Rep. Jolanda Jones compared the ongoing redistricting fight in her home state to the Holocaust during a bizarre Tuesday interview with ousted CNN anchor Don Lemon.

Jones — who has joined a number of her colleagues in fleeing to the highly gerrymandered state of Illinois to protest gerrymandering in Texas — argued that if she remained silent in the face of the Republican-led redistricting map, she’d be no different than those who were silent when the Nazi regime rounded up and systematically slaughtered millions of Jews.

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Texas State Rep. Jolanda Jones, who fled the state to Illinois, compares redistricting to the Holocaust.

To the nodding approvals of Don Lemon. pic.twitter.com/Zj3AUnfkBN

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 5, 2025

Jones began by arguing that the Republicans’ proposed map was proof that they did not accept black people despite racial integration.

“Integration happened and everybody thought they accept us. They don’t accept us,” she claimed. “They are showing us who they are. We should believe them. And we better have the courage to stand up, otherwise we will fall for anything, and in this country we will be defeated, deported — I mean, we will lose all of our rights.”

“And if you think it can’t happen, it can,” she continued. “And I will liken this to the Holocaust — people are like, well, how did the Holocaust happen? How was somebody in a position to kill all them people? Well, good people remained silent —”

“Mmhmm,” Lemon agreed.

” — Or, good people didn’t realize that what happens to them could very soon happen to me or somebody I love,” Jones continued. “And so even if you made it, man, you have an obligation to help people who can’t because God forbid they end up targeting you and your family.”

Critics were quick to point out just how far out of line her comments had erred.

“Redistricting is like the Holocaust. And jeans commercials are like Nazis. Imagine being these people,” Daniel Turner posted.

Redistricting is like the Holocaust.

And jeans commercials are like Nazis.

Imagine being these people. https://t.co/0MwHWEh89Z

— Daniel Turner (@DanielTurnerPTF) August 5, 2025

Townhall’s Jeff Charles jabbed at Jones for trivializing the Holocaust, adding his sarcastic take: “‘The holocaust wasn’t THAT bad y’all. The Nazis basically just redistricted the Jews.'”

“The holocaust wasn’t THAT bad y’all. The Nazis basically just redistricted the Jews.” https://t.co/btERnoN5e3

— Hotep Jeffiziah Charles🏴 (@jeffcharlesjr) August 5, 2025

“We now know that Rock Bottom has a basement,” another added.

We now know that Rock Bottom has a basement. pic.twitter.com/IhYcCZq1Gp

— TheJerseyGirl (@ChristineX2024) August 5, 2025

According to political analyst Mark Halperin, if former Vice President Kamala Harris slams former President Biden in her new book, Biden’s team is poised to level her publicly.

Just after Biden signed a book deal for his memoir, Harris announced her upcoming book “107 Days,” which revolves around her 2024 presidential run for the presidency. Halperin made his comments on 2Way’s “The Morning Meeting.

“I’m gonna break a little news here,” Halperin boasted. “We talk all the time about what did Kamala Harris know and when did she know it about his cognitive decline. I will tell you, and this has never been reported, barely at all, if the Biden people decide that Kamala Harris is coming after Joe Biden, wait until you hear the Palin-esque stories about how much they tried to help her be prepared to be vice president and be in a position to run, and how much they decided, ‘Not happening. She’s not up to this.’ And if the Biden people feel threatened, you will hear stories about Kamala Harris as vice president that will not make her look good.”

“There’s a closeness to the couples,” he stated, “It’s not like they’re at war currently, but I’m tellin’ ya, if Joe Biden feels threatened, if his people feel threatened by her, this is going to escalate in a big way and she will have a hard time defending against the stories if that dam bursts. They were extraordinary in trying to help her do the job of vice-president; they gave her every opportunity. They found in some instances that she had some issues.”

“The folks in the Biden administration, including the president himself, were very protective of her, did their best to make her a success, did their best to make her ready to be president either if Joe Biden left office prematurely or if she decided she wanted to run,” Halperin said. “If you look at her public schedule, you’ll see she had, I think, an unprecedented number of meetings with world leaders. Certainly, every opportunity, whether they were in Washington or when she traveled overseas, she met a lot of world leaders. They tried to get her up to speed, but she was not quite ready for prime time. Let me put it that way.”