“There are no states more gerrymandered than California and Illinois and New York.”
Greg Abbott
Governor of Texas. Claim dated 5 Aug 2025.
FactCheck.org rated thisPartly false
What FactCheck.org found
Illinois is among the most skewed states for partisan congressional maps, but California and New York get favorable marks in analyses from nonpartisan organizations.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Greg Abbott (Governor of Texas) made this claim around 5 August 2025. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 15 August 2025, 10 days later. Its rating was “Partly false”.
Greg Abbott has 10 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 4 of them false or fake, 6 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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