Vice President J.D. Vance defended redistricting in traditionally red states such as Texas as the proper response to many years of Democratic gerrymandering.
The Texas state legislature adopted a new congressional map that could lead to an additional 5 GOP seats in the House of Representatives.
“Well, first of all, Kristen, you have to ask yourself, ‘Why have Democrats gerrymandered their states aggressively over the past ten to 20 years?’ If you look, for example, at the popular vote in a lot of these states, and Massachusetts, where 32% of the residents of Massachusetts voted for Republicans, zero Republican federal representatives,” Vance said Sunday on “Meet the Press.”
“So we’re not trying to sort of — all we’re doing, frankly, is trying to make the situation a little bit more fair on a national scale. The Democrats have gerrymandered their states really aggressively. We think there are opportunities to push back against that. And that’s really all we’re doing,” he added.
Vance was asked during the interview if he sees himself as “the apparent future of the MAGA movement” after President Trump leaves office.
“I see myself as a vice president who’s trying to do a good job for the American people, Kristen. And if I do a good job, and if the president continues to be successful, as I know that he will be, the politics will take care of itself,” Vance said. “We can cross that bridge when we come to it. But we just had an election seven months ago. I think I’m probably like most Americans, and I’m already sick of talking about politics after a big general election.”
