Speaking to Maria Bartiromo on her Fox Business show “Sunday Morning Futures,” Vice President JD Vance called for Republicans around the country, particularly in state legislatures, to push back against “aggressive” gerrymandering carried out by Democratic states like California, New York, and Illinois.
For reference, Vance’s comments to Bartiromo came on Sunday, August 10, in the context of both Texas engaging in redistricting efforts that could wipe out Democratic seats like the one held by Jasmine Crockett and of President Trump and the national legislature working to not count illegal aliens in the Census for purposes of redistricting.
So, commenting on the situation, VP Vance argued that including illegal aliens in the census has unfairly tipped the voting scales in favor of the Democratic Party, and thus the Republican legislators need to do whatever they can to fight back and level the electoral playing field by making some self-beneficial electoral moves of their own.
Speaking on the matter to Bartiromo, VP Vance explained that the inclusion of illegal immigrants in the Census for House districting purposes has broken our democratic process, saying, “The democratic system in this country is broken because who you vote for doesn’t necessarily get reflected in who your representatives are.”
Continuing, he explained that in doing redistricting like what is happening in Texas or what could happen as Trump and Congress rework the Census, Republicans are simply pushing back against the way Democrats have tipped the scales in their favor. He said, “We’re just trying to rebalance the scales and frankly push back against a very unfair system created by the Democrats.”
Further emphasizing just how absurd the status quo is, the vice president argued that “It’s ridiculously unfair” that illegal aliens are represented in Congress via districting just as much as Americans are. And, using that to explain why redistricting is a necessity, he said, “The only real way to fight back against it is for us to redistrict, in some ways, as aggressively as these hard blue states have done.”
That came after he commented on the worst of the worst Democratic states in terms of gerrymandering and excluding Republican voters, saying, “California has crazy gerrymanders, Illinois has crazy gerrymanders, New York has crazy gerrymanders. What it does is suppress the will of the people in states like Indiana.”
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Additionally, Vice President Vance explained that there is little Republicans should fear about taking action on this front, as Democrats have already pushed gerrymandering and the like so far that there is little left for them to do. He said, “There’s just not a whole lot of juice left out of that lemon. The Democrats have already gone as far as they possibly can,” and “You cannot gerrymander these far-left states anymore.”
Watch him here:
Republicans online largely agreed with VP Vance. Charlie Kirk, for example, wrote, “He’s 100% right, and if we succeed in removing illegals from apportionment, they’re cooked. It’s well past time we fought fire with fire.” Similarly, Eric Daugherty said, “VP JD Vance announced he went to Indiana to push the governor and lawmakers to redistrict their Congressional map. Things just got worse for Dems.”
This isn’t the first time that JD Vance has commented on the gerrymandering matter. Posting about it at the end of July, he said, “The gerrymander in California is outrageous. Of their 52 congressional districts, 9 of them are Republican. That means 17 percent of their delegation is Republican when Republicans regularly win 40 percent of the vote in that state. How can this possibly be allowed?”
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