{"id":2473501,"date":"2025-08-11T17:38:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T21:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/politico-insists-gerrymandering-is-different-when-democrats-do-it\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T17:39:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T21:39:56","slug":"politico-insists-gerrymandering-is-different-when-democrats-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/politico-insists-gerrymandering-is-different-when-democrats-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Politico Insists Gerrymandering Is Different When Democrats Do It"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpolitico-insists-gerrymandering-is-different-when-democrats-do-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2473501&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article criticizes Politico journalist Gregory svirnovskiy for portraying Democratic gerrymandering as legitimate while denouncing Republican-lead redistricting efforts in Texas as attempts to &#8220;cheat&#8221; influenced by former President Trump. Texas Governor Greg Abbott called a special session to consider new congressional maps addressing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/south-carolina-superintendent-of-education-stirs-controversy-over-god-given-potential-prompt\/\" title=\"Controversy sparked by SC Superintendent&#039;s &quot;God-given potential&quot; prompt.\">constitutional concerns raised<\/a> by the U.S. Department of Justice regarding racial gerrymandering. Meanwhile, texas Democrats fled the state to protest a redistricting plan that could increase Republican seats.<\/p>\n<p>The article highlights that heavily gerrymandered maps favoring Democrats exist in states like Illinois, New York, and Massachusetts. Illinois, for example, has been accused of packing Republican voters into fewer districts despite Democrats not winning a large majority of the popular vote. Similar Democratic-led manipulations have occurred in New York, where lawmakers overruled an self-reliant commission&#8217;s maps to slightly boost their advantage. Massachusetts has zero Republican congressional districts despite notable support for Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The piece argues that Democratic gerrymandering is framed as acceptable or tactical politics, while Republican actions, especially in Texas, are depicted as illegitimate, largely due to Trump&#8217;s association. Legal experts counter that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-redistricting-lawsuit-could-cost-congressional-republicans-up-to-six-house-seats\/\" title=\"NY Redistricting Lawsuit May Result in GOP Losing Six House ...\">mid-decade redistricting<\/a> is not illegal, but infrequent due to political disputes. Former officials like Eric Holder have compared Trump&#8217;s support for Texas maps to his controversial 2020 efforts regarding election results, painting the GOP attempts negatively.<\/p>\n<p>Vice President J.D. Vance and others describe Democratic gerrymandering as longstanding and aggressive, suggesting republicans need to respond decisively to restore electoral fairness. The article concludes that criticism of Republican redistricting efforts is politically motivated, while Democratic efforts receive leniency despite similar or worse practices.  <\/p>\n<div id=\"ld-4686-3758\"><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:14832835450050406,size:[0, 0],id:\"ld-4686-3758\"});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src=\"https:\/\/cdn2.decide.dev\/_js\/ajs.js\";j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,\"script\",\"ld-ajs\");<\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body body-md bdr-top-black pt-30\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<figure class=\"article-thumbnail mb-30 mb-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-thumbnail-caption d-flex align-items-center justify-content-md-end label-xs mt-15\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-camera me-10\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Image Credit<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QusI51hrFN4\">JB Pritzker\/ Youtube <\/a>       <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-share text-center article-share-simple\">\n<h5 class=\"label-sm mb-10\">Share<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"article-share-list list-unstyled m-0 p-0\">\n<li class=\"article-share-facebook m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/08\/11\/politico-hacks-insist-gerrymandering-is-different-when-democrats-do-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-facebook\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Facebook<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-twitter m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Politico%20Hacks%20Insist%20Gerrymandering%20Is%20Different%20When%20Democrats%20Do%20It&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/08\/11\/politico-hacks-insist-gerrymandering-is-different-when-democrats-do-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Twitter<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-truth-social m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/share?title=Politico%20Hacks%20Insist%20Gerrymandering%20Is%20Different%20When%20Democrats%20Do%20It&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/08\/11\/politico-hacks-insist-gerrymandering-is-different-when-democrats-do-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"currentColor\" style=\"width:36px;height:auto;\" viewbox=\"0 0 92 93\"><path d=\"M69.444 55.716H56.772v10.37h12.672zM64.487 37.795V27.32H38.666v38.664h13.18v-28.19zM21.05 27.321h12.653v10.471H21.051z\" https:><\/path><\/svg>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Truth Social<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-link m-0\">       <button data-clipboard-text=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/08\/11\/politico-hacks-insist-gerrymandering-is-different-when-democrats-do-it\/\" data-tooltip-content=\"Copied!\" class=\"clip tooltip\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-link-variant\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Copy Article Link<\/span>       <\/button>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\">       <a href=\"mailto:?subject=Politico%20Hacks%20Insist%20Gerrymandering%20Is%20Different%20When%20Democrats%20Do%20It&amp;body=Svirnovskiy's%20framing%20is%20clear:%20He%20wants%20readers%20to%20view%20the%20Texas%20Republican%20effort%20as%20illegitimate%20precisely%20because%20Trump%20supports%20it.%20https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/08\/11\/politico-hacks-insist-gerrymandering-is-different-when-democrats-do-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-email\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article via Email<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\"><span class=\"printfriendly pf-button  pf-alignleft\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.print(); return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\"><span id=\"printfriendly-text2\" class=\"pf-button-text\"><i class=\"mdi mdi-printer\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>On Sunday, Politico&rsquo;s Gregory Svirnovskiy regurgitated talking points by Illinois Democrat governor J.B. Pritzker and Attorney General Eric Holder to suggest Democrats&rsquo; gerrymandering is permissible, while smearing Republicans&rsquo; attempt to redistrict in Texas as a Trump-backed &ldquo;attempt to cheat mid-decade.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called a special legislative session to, in part, <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/texas-republicans-propose-new-congressional-maps-gop-gains\/story?id=124212897\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">consider<\/a> new maps &ldquo;in light of constitutional concerns raised by the U.S. Department of Justice.&rdquo; This came right after the DOJ <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PhilJankowski\/status\/1943058471168962808\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">expressed &ldquo;serious concerns&rdquo;<\/a>&nbsp;that four Texas districts were unlawfully gerrymandered on racial grounds. Last week, close to 60 Texas House Democrats&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/08\/04\/texas-dems-whine-about-redistricting-from-illinois-the-most-gerrymandered-state-in-the-country\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">abandoned<\/a>&nbsp;the state and headed to Illinois, New York, and Massachusetts to protest a new redistricting proposal that could give Republicans five more congressional seats.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2 d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-901369406\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1463670073398-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As The Federalist reported, Illinois is the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/08\/04\/texas-dems-whine-about-redistricting-from-illinois-the-most-gerrymandered-state-in-the-country\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">most gerrymandered state in the country<\/a>. In fact, as Nathaniel Rakich and Tony Chow&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/videos\/illinois-may-be-the-worst-democratic-gerrymander-in-the-country\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>&nbsp;in 2022 in FiveThirtyEight, Illinois&rsquo; &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/experts-give-democrats-f-grade-for-trying-to-further-gerrymander-maryland-congressional-maps\/\" title=\"Experts Give ... \u2018F\u2019 Grade For Trying To Further Gerrymander Maryland Congressional ...\">gerrymandered congressional map<\/a> seems hell-bent on making Republican congressmen from Illinois an endangered species.&rdquo; Democrats &mdash; who were in charge of redistricting in the state &mdash; &ldquo;drew a map that packed all five Republicans&rdquo; in Illinois&rsquo; U.S. House delegation &ldquo;into just three.&rdquo; And despite Democrats not winning even 60 percent of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/statistics\/elections\/2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">popular vote<\/a> in 2024, the party holds 14 out of the state&rsquo;s 17 congressional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stlpr.org\/government-politics-issues\/2025-03-27\/illinois-democrats-argue-republicans-file-latest-redistricting-suit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">seats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In New York, Democrats at the state level blocked a proposal drawn by the state&rsquo;s bipartisan Independent Redistricting Committee (IRC) last year and instead approved a map which, as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/new-york-lawmakers-approve-congressional-map-rcna140890\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NBC News&rsquo;<\/a>&nbsp;Jane C. Timm wrote, gave &ldquo;Democrats a slight boost.&rdquo;Notably, New Yorkers <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/02\/28\/democrat-gerrymandering-in-new-york-threatens-republican-control-of-congress-in-2024\/\">passed<\/a> a constitutional amendment in 2014 creating the IRC, which is tasked with drawing new maps every 10 years. Democrats had previously been shot down by the courts after they, as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/new-york-democrats-seek-redo-bungled-gerrymander-rcna124881\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Timm described<\/a>, passed maps &ldquo;that so significantly boosted their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tx-dems-flee-to-most-gerrymandered-state-to-protest\/\" title=\"TX Dems Flee To Most ... To Protest\">congressional prospects&#038;rdquo<\/a>; in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>In Massachusetts, there are a total of zero Republican congressional districts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/massachusetts-playbook\/2025\/08\/07\/messing-with-texas-00497021#:~:text=But%20not%20so%20much%20in,%E2%80%9CNice%20grandstanding.%E2%80%9D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">despite<\/a> the state swinging more than 36 percent for Trump in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, Svirnovskiy suggested that the <em>real<\/em> problem isn&rsquo;t Democrats&rsquo; gerrymandering, it&rsquo;s Republicans&rsquo;. He used comments from Pritzker and Holder to essentially smear the redistricting efforts in Texas as an attempt to rig elections &ldquo;on the whims&rdquo; of Donald Trump. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You talked about how rare it is to do what he&rsquo;s doing,&rdquo; Pritzker told Kristen Welker during a Sunday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/meet-the-press\/meet-press-august-10-2025-n1312553\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interview<\/a>, as noted by Svirnovskiy. &ldquo;Yes, it is. What&rsquo;s even rarer is to do it at the behest of the president of the United States, who&rsquo;s clearly attempting to and says that he deserves to have five more seats.&rdquo; Pritzker defended Illinois&rsquo; gerrymandered map in the interview, Svirnovskiy indicated, by noting it &ldquo;came at the end of the decennial census&rdquo; and &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >state officials held public hearings<\/a> and ensured that it followed the Voting Rights Act.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>As recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2025\/08\/06\/lone-star-states-redistricting-constitutional-legal-necessary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pointed out <\/a>by Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation, &ldquo;the claim that engaging in mid-decade redistricting is somehow illegal is complete nonsense.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;No federal or state law, constitutional provision, or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2019\/04\/24\/trump-tax-return-case-hinges-on-irs-statute-supreme-court-precedent\/\">court precedent<\/a>&nbsp;limits states to redistricting just once every 10 years. More frequent redistricting is simply rare because it often results in brutal political fights and years of litigation by those unhappy with the results,&rdquo; Spakovsky wrote, adding that &ldquo;Texas is acting to bring its districts in line with federal law and court decisions.&rdquo;  <\/p>\n<p>Svirnovskiy concludes by referencing Holder, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2025\/08\/10\/eric_holder_gop_gerrymandering_is_a_threat_to_our_democracy_dems_must_gerrymander_to_save_our_democracy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> Welker that Trump&rsquo;s alleged involvement reminded him of a 2021 phone call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;[Trump] said, &lsquo;Find me 11,780 votes.&rsquo; [Trump] calls Texas now and says, &lsquo;Well, find me five seats so that we can save the House in 2026&rsquo;,&rdquo; Holder told Welker, as noted in Svirnovskiy&rsquo;s piece. As The Federalist&rsquo;s Margot Cleveland has <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/09\/georgia-prosecutor-targeting-trump-bases-court-filing-on-fake-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>, Trump never asked Raffensperger to &ldquo;find&rdquo; these votes. Rather, Trump&rsquo;s legal team said it &ldquo;had solid evidence of illegal votes easily exceeding the official margin of Biden&rsquo;s victory of 11,779,&rdquo; and Trump &ldquo;spoke of his own desire &lsquo;to find 11,780 votes&#8217;&rdquo; in the context of highlighting this evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Svirnovskiy&rsquo;s framing is clear: He wants readers to view the Texas Republican effort as illegitimate precisely because Trump supports it, while dismissing Democrats&rsquo; gerrymandering as just good, &ldquo;tactical&rdquo; politics.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has promoted the redistricting proposal in Texas. But as Spakovsky said in a statement to The Federalist, it is &ldquo;absurd&rdquo; that a sitting president cannot comment on the clearly &ldquo;unconstitutional gerrymanders&rdquo; in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The fact that the Justice Department has acted to enforce [federal law] should be commended and the president has every right to comment on that,&rdquo; Spakovsky continued.<\/p>\n<p>As Vice President J.D. Vance noted in a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2025\/08\/10\/vance_blue_states_have_already_maxed_out_advantage_by_gerrymandering_districts_counting_illegals_in_census.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interview<\/a> on Fox News, Democrats &ldquo;have fought very dirty for a very long time&rdquo; and &ldquo;have tried to rig the game &hellip; against Republicans.&rdquo; Under Trump&rsquo;s leadership, &ldquo;you finally see some backbone in the Republican party to fight back against these very aggressive Democratic dirty tricks&rdquo; like aggressive gerrymandering, he continued. However, the only way to do that is to &ldquo;reset the scales a little bit.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What we want to do is redo the census, but, importantly, we want to redistrict some of these red states. And we want to make the congressional apportionment fair in this country. Again, you cannot do it unless Republicans actually take some very decisive action in the months to come,&rdquo; Vance said. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">      Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. 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