No, they could not simply ‘move’ districts to the cities. What they could do, however, is rearrange the districts so that there are a whole bunch of districts that have both urban and suburban (maybe rural, too) parts. In states controlled by Dems, these districts may be set up in such a way that they have populations that are 60-40 urban-nonurban. The opposite in states controlled by the GOP.
Chances of us winning a state controlled by dims no matter how they gerrymander their districts are still super slim.
I’ll take that 40%. Sure beats zero.
There just aren’t that many “city people” in Pennsylvania, for example to have each CD be 60 % urban.
They can’t run every dictrict through Philly.