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Posted on 11/10/2026 2:55:18 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Among the myths that exploded in the midterm elections is that Republicans could gerrymander their way to House control, and that the Supreme Court tried to help them. The GOP was dumb, and Democrats owe the Justices another apology.
The magnitude of the GOP gerrymander bungle is coming into clearer view as more close races are called. President Trump started the self-defeating fiasco, as he so often does, by demanding that Texas Republicans use their then towering majorities to redraw House districts to gain five more seats. Democrats responded by redrawing California districts to create five more for Democrats.
The result? If current ballot counting trends hold, California Republicans will now have only four of 52 House seats, as Democrats gained those five. But Republicans picked up only one of the seats they hoped to gain in Texas, while Democrats flipped two other GOP districts thought to be safe. The Hispanic-majority seats the GOP hoped to keep or gain on the Mexican border were a Democratic rout. Democrats will come out with a net gain of one in Texas.
Republicans tried to counter California by redrawing districts elsewhere, but that was a bust too. In Florida Republicans lost all four of the redrawn districts they targeted for gains. The GOP redrew North Carolina’s districts in the hope of adding one to its current 10-4 majority. Yet because Republicans spread GOP voters thin, Democrats will pick up at least five and maybe more there.
All of this has the left chortling, and understandably so. But what you won’t hear is an admission of how wrong Democrats were about the Supreme Court on gerrymanders. Recall how Democrats predicted the return of Jim Crow after the Court’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais in April that states can’t use the Voting Rights...
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Yeah obviously all that redistricting nonsense was a total waste of time. And now it opened the door for the Dems to continually redistrict now that they control so many state legislatures. Nice work GOP / Trump.
I still remember 1982 redistricting in Indiana.
As a result, Republicans ended up with One seat, Dems with TEN!
It took a long time for the IN Republicans to recover!
Obviously Trump have not remembered.
Only the Democrats Gerrymandered districts.
The Republicans Gerrygifted districts.
It watered down safe districts.
In the TN redistricting we won the 9th but lost the 4th. 4th got more Dem areas.
It was a push.
“Yeah obviously all that redistricting nonsense was a total waste of time.”
Replace “Republicans” with “RINOs” and the results make perfect sense, score one for the Uniparty. The only real joyful thing from a week ago was Thune was politically flushed down the toilet. He won’t be the minority leader either if the GOPe has any credibility left.
‘He won’t be the minority leader either if the GOPe has any credibility left.’
Just saw the vomit-inducing headline. RINOS gonna RINO.
Smarter Republicans, such as Brian Kemp, tried to warn the president and the party that the redistricting would only serve to fire up Democratic voters even more.
Who is this Jerry Manders of whom they speak? It seems he pissed everyone off!
As long as the Democrats can openly register millions of people without ID to vote, it doesn’t matter anymore about past voting patterns.
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