Jeffries Says GOP House Majority Is Due to Gerrymandering, Ignores His Own Party’s Gerrymandering

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries claimed, with no evidence whatsoever, that Republicans only have a majority because of gerrymandering.

"Republicans wouldn’t even be in the majority right now if it weren’t for Republicans in the North Carolina legislature last year stealing three congressional seats."

The three seats that Republicans gained were following the North Carolina Supreme Court allowing a congressional map that it determined was not gerrymandered (but previously did in 2021 when the court had a liberal balance of power). Since the popular vote is so important to Democrats, they should be reminded that when Republicans picked up those 3 seats they got 52.8% of the popular vote to Democrats’ 42.8%. 

Democrats have already rigged the congressional map in their favor through mass immigration, both legal and illegal. Noncitizens, who overwhelmingly congregate in Democrat-heavy areas, are counted as population, and thus artificially boost representation in Congress in those areas, even though they can’t vote themselves. As a Center for Immigration Studies report found: “The net effect of increases in both legal and illegal immigration in the 2020 Census shifted 17 House seats and 17 Electoral College votes, resulting in a net gain of 14 seats in Blue States — ten seats shifting from red states and four from battleground states.”

In other words, if Democrats had the thin majority that Republicans currently have, we can say with 100% certainty that it’s because of their open borders policies.

But back to gerrymandering,

In recent years, Democrats have engaged in gerrymandering in several states to secure electoral advantages. In Illinois, following the 2020 census, Democrats redrew congressional maps to create a 14-3 advantage, significantly reducing Republican representation by tweaking an already gerrymandered map to favor incumbents and gain an additional seat. In New Mexico, Democrats adjusted district boundaries to flip a Republican-leaning seat, resulting in a narrow win in 2022, though the district remains competitive. Oregon saw Democrats attempt to engineer a 5-1 advantage by redrawing a Republican-leaning district into a swing seat, but Republicans still won it in 2022. In Maryland, Democrats redrew maps to eliminate a Republican congressional seat, though courts later struck down the plan.