Vice President J.D. Vance is calling on Republicans to take “decisive action” as a nationwide battle with Democrats over redistricting continues to flare.
The controversy erupted after Texas embraced a Trump-backed plan to make five House districts more favorable to Republicans.
While gerrymandering is a bipartisan vice, Democrats have threatened to retaliate, accusing Republicans of a ruthless power grab that violates democratic norms.
However, Democrats have long pushed gerrymandering efforts that benefit their own party while opposing similar plans that favor Republicans.
Republicans, meanwhile, cast their redistricting efforts as a reaction to years of unfairness by Democrats in states like Illinois, California, and New York.
“If California has crazy gerrymanders, Illinois has crazy gerrymanders, New York has crazy gerrymanders, what it does is it actually suppresses the will of the people in states like Indiana,” Vance told Fox News.
As Vance put it to Fox News, Republicans are finally getting even and restoring some balance to a skewed system.
“The democratic system in this country is broken because who you vote for doesn’t necessarily get reflected in who your representatives are,” he said.
“We’re just trying to rebalance the scales and, frankly, push back against a very unfair system created by the Democrats.”
Republicans also say Democrats are exploiting the U.S. Census, which determines the distribution of House seats and Electoral College votes every 10 years.
The Trump administration wants to remove illegal aliens from the census, arguing their inclusion gives Democratic states with high immigrant populations an unfair advantage.
California, the most populous state in the U.S. and the one with the most House seats, has a population that is nearly one-third foreign-born.
Vance urged Republicans to expand their redistricting efforts beyond Texas and support Trump’s effort to redo the census.
“What we want to do is redo the census, but importantly, we want to redistrict some of these red states, and we want to make the congressional apportionment fair in this country,” Vance said.
“Again, you cannot do it unless Republicans actually take some very decisive action in the months to come.
“We think they will and will obviously support them every step of the way.”
Blue state governors have toyed with mid-decade redistricting to get back at Republicans.
However, Democrats may have limited ways of responding because their states are already skewed heavily toward the Left.
This imbalance may be part of the reason why Vance is encouraging Republicans to escalate.
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