JD Vance Defends GOP Redistricting as Long Overdue Counter to Democrat Power Grabs

Vice President JD Vance isn’t backing down from the left-wing media’s latest hit job over redistricting.

Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday, Vance fired back at host Kristen Welker’s attempt to paint Texas Republicans’ redrawing of the congressional map as a political stunt. Instead, he delivered a pointed reminder of how Democrats have spent decades rigging the system in their own favor.

“So they expanded the map for Republicans in their state,” Welker asked, referring to the Texas Senate’s passage of a GOP-backed map that makes five districts more favorable ahead of the 2026 midterms. “If President Trump’s agenda is so popular, why do Republicans need to add additional seats?”

Vance didn’t miss a beat.

“Why have Democrats gerrymandered their states aggressively over the past ten to twenty years?” he asked. “In Massachusetts, for example, 32% of the population voted Republican and yet they have zero Republican federal representatives. Zero.”

He’s right. In state after state, deep-blue legislatures have drawn district lines to shut out conservative voices. States like California, New York, and Illinois have been textbook examples of Democrat-engineered maps designed to lock in power, often leaving Republican voters voiceless.

Now, with Texas taking steps to rebalance the scale, suddenly the left is outraged.

Let’s break it down:

• Massachusetts: 32% of voters lean Republican, yet 100% of federal representatives are Democrats.

• California: Democrats are working to dismantle their own “independent” redistricting commission just this week, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed three bills to scrap it and replace it with a map drawn by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

• Texas: Republicans aim to make five more districts competitive for their party, leveling the field after years of Democrat gerrymandering across the nation.

According to Vance, this is about fairness, not politics. “We’re just trying to make the situation a little bit more fair on a national scale,” he said. “The only real way to fight back is to redistrict, in some ways, as aggressively as these hard-blue states have done.”

It’s a message Republican voters have long waited to hear. For years, the left has manipulated electoral maps with impunity while accusing conservatives of playing dirty whenever they try to course correct.

Democrats, meanwhile, are already panicking. Newsom’s move in California is a clear signal that the left is terrified of losing its gerrymandered grip on Congress. But as Vance noted, they may have already maxed out their advantage: “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.”

In other words, it's about time Republicans pushed back and this time, they’re not playing defense.

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