Vance defends Texas GOP redistricting on NBC as leveling the taking part in area

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Vice President JD Vance pushed again on NBC’s "Meet the Press" host Kristen Welker’s query on Sunday about Texas Republicans redrawing the congressional map for his or her state, arguing that they're making an attempt to degree the taking part in area.

The query got here after the Texas Senate handed a new GOP-favored congressional map on Friday which made 5 districts extra Republican-friendly forward of the 2026 midterm elections.

"In order that they expanded the map for Republicans of their state," Welker started. "If President Trump's agenda is so in style, why do Republicans want so as to add further seats to the map?"

US Vice President JD Vance responded to a query about Texas Republicans' redistricting efforts. (Jason Alden/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photos)

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"Properly, to begin with, Kristen, it's important to ask your self, ‘Why have Democrats gerrymandered their states aggressively over the previous ten to twenty years?’" Vance responded. "If you happen to look, for instance, on the in style vote in lots of these states, and Massachusetts, the place 32% of the residents of Massachusetts voted for Republicans, zero Republican federal representatives."

He continued, "So we're not making an attempt to kind of — all we're doing, frankly, is making an attempt to make the state of affairs just a little bit extra truthful on a nationwide scale. The Democrats have gerrymandered their states actually aggressively. We predict there are alternatives to push again towards that. And that is actually all we're doing."

California Gov. Gavin Newsom pushed for efforts to redistrict his state in response to Texas. (AP )

A number of Democratic leaders, equivalent to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, shortly started efforts to redistrict their states to counterbalance Texas Republican positive aspects. On Thursday, Newsom signed into law three bills to assist overturn the preexisting congressional maps and the state’s impartial redistricting fee in favor of a map drawn up by the Democratic Congressional Marketing campaign Committee.

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The payments enable California voters to determine on the matter in a particular election on Nov. 4.

Vance known as on Republicans to counter Democratic gerrymandering and to " rebalance the scales " and "push again towards a really unfair system" earlier this month.

"The one actual strategy to combat again towards it's for us to redistrict, in some methods, as aggressively as these hard-blue states have accomplished," Vance informed Maria Bartiromo on Fox News ' "Sunday Morning Futures."

Vance inspired extra Republican redistricting efforts nationwide. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP by way of Getty Photos)

He was unconcerned by Newsom and different Democrats, claiming that there wasn't rather more gerrymandering they might do.

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"There's simply not a complete lot of juice unnoticed of that lemon," he mentioned. "The Democrats have already gone so far as they probably can."

Fox Information' Alex Miller and Peter Pinedo contributed to this report.

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