President Trump told Texas Republicans to redraw the state congressional map to keep a majority in the House of Representatives
President Trump told Texas Republicans to redraw the state congressional map to keep a majority in the House of Representatives
President Donald Trump is pushing Republicans in Texas to redraw the state's congressional maps to help ensure the party keeps its majority in the U.S.
They didn't need to be told. Frankly, I'm surprised Texas has room to be gerrymandered even more.
It's a balancing act. To maximize likely seats won, they need to accurately predict who will vote on that election, which is difficult. Small predicted margins of victory now could evaporate and result in Democrats winning.
Yep, this is the thing people often forget about gerrymandering. The entire point is to take a large margin of victory in an area, and use it to offset your opponents margin in another area, usually by carving into your opponents margin with several of your own.
The more gerrymandered a set of districts is, the more likely they are to be tipped by an unexpected change of turn out by a given group.
One group gets complacent (my vote doesn't matter in this state, since my party always wins!) or one group gets fired up... And suddenly the story flips.
Gerrymandered? You mean Donnytrumpered?
Hardly newsworthy. Gerrymandering is literally enshrined in our constitution. Congressional maps have always been redrawn by the party in power to ensure that they remain in power. I would expect Democrats to be doing the same thing if we were talking about California.
If Barack Obama
Told California Democrats
To gerrymander their map so he wouldn't lose the House
Conservatives would have lost their goddamned minds.
(Again.)
Of course. Those two scenarios are totally different, though. As different as black and white ....
I remember when new Mexico a strong blue state gerrymandering and even though we a Lil guy republican cried and cried but we just said we playing by your rules fuck faces
Are you actually going to try to say that Democrats don't engage in gerrymandering? Really?
Barack Obama wouldn't tell California Democrats to gerrymander their map so they'd keep the house. He wouldn't have to, because they'd do it anyway. Just like every other Democrat state would. And just like every other Republican state does. Trump telling Texas to do it is redundant because it's something that Texas was going to do anyway.
And yes, Conservatives lose their shit when a Democrat does it. And Democrats lose their shit when a Republican does it. Because they both try to play the game under "Rules for thee, not for me" rules. But the fact of the matter is, for better or worse, gerrymandering is a part of our electoral system that both parties routinely engage in in order to maintain their majority.
It's literally an example of "Don't hate the player, hate the game".
Are Democrats ok with this or are they also losing their shit?
I live in California and I don’t recall the maps being drawn that way. At one point the State mailed a draft of the new map and explained that it was redrawn in accordance with the change in population. Overall it seemed pretty fair.
You've never heard of the California Citizens Redistricting Committee before today, huh?
Congressional maps have always been redrawn by the party in power to ensure that they remain in power. I would expect Democrats to be doing the same thing if we were talking about California.
Claims made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
AFAIK it’s not enshrined in the Constitution, it’s a Supreme Court ruling that said federal courts have no authority to assess cases of gerrymandering.
That's like telling a cow to eat grass and burp methane..
What they're gonna do is redraw all the maps of the states they are in control of, and eliminate ALL Democrat districts. Every single one. They'll do this and there will be challenges declaring it illegal but by the time it actually comes before a court it'll be too late to redraw so they'll just go ahead with the illegal maps and then Democrats won't just not win the house, they will lose 30+ seats. All because the Republicans are fascists and people refused to vote for democratic candidates last election cycle.
They might, might, leave one or two blue districts per state, but otherwise they will be gone. This is the plan in Ohio and in Florida, it's happening. It doesn't matter that it's BS.
Anyone who helped Trump win, including those who helped Harris lose, will be responsible for the downfall of the American democratic system.
Guess it's time for some successions.
At least he still thinks he needs control of Congress and sees them as a possible problem if Democrats were to retain control.
They cheated before, they will cheat again.