Democrats love to scream about “democracy under attack” — until the topic turns to redistricting. Then suddenly, carving up maps like a Thanksgiving turkey is just fine, so long as it benefits them. But this week on Meet the Press, Vice President JD Vance put that double standard on full display and left Kristen Welker scrambling to cover for the Left’s favorite shell game.
The interview was supposed to be about the so-called redistricting crisis brewing in states like Texas and California. Instead, it became a masterclass in how Democrats get away with pretending they’re the victims while stacking the deck for decades.
Vance didn’t even have to dig deep. He brought up Massachusetts — a state where 32 percent of voters pull the lever for Republicans, but somehow, magically, not a single federal seat has a Republican representative. Zero. None. You’d think the GOP didn’t exist there at all. And that’s exactly how Democrats like it. They’ve been drawing their lines with surgical precision for years, and now that Republicans are pushing back? Suddenly, it’s the end of democracy.
“All we’re doing, frankly, is trying to make the situation a little bit more fair,” says @VP on redistricting.
“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.” pic.twitter.com/q06A8CkniT
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) August 24, 2025
But here’s where Vance dropped the hammer: the census. You know, that once-every-decade headcount that determines how many seats in Congress each state gets? Turns out it’s not just American citizens being counted. Illegal immigrants are included too, and that padding has given blue states an edge that no one in the corporate media wants to talk about.
Vance said the estimates he’d seen show California with about five extra seats it wouldn’t have if the census only counted U.S. citizens. Five seats. Think about that. Five extra voices in Washington, five extra votes in the House, all because noncitizens are inflating the numbers. And the kicker? Those seats directly cancel out the voices of American citizens in other states.
Welker tried to play the tired old line — “but undocumented people can’t vote.” As if that were the point. Vance cut through it immediately. No one’s saying they’re pulling levers on Election Day. The problem is that they’re counted for representation, which shifts power away from states that actually play by the rules. Citizens in Ohio or Iowa lose their voice while California gains, all because of a broken system the Left refuses to fix.
.@VP on illegal aliens in the Census: “They do go in the congressional apportionment. That’s why California has so many more seats is because they count illegal aliens… They end up getting congressional representation that ought, by right, go to American citizens.” pic.twitter.com/Lfu3kYaM6N
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) August 24, 2025
And why would they? The imbalance works for them. It props up their seats. It protects their majority. It keeps the scales tipped just enough so they can claim the system is fair while knowing full well it’s anything but.
Now, pair that with Democrats’ history of gerrymandering states like Illinois, New York, and Maryland into maps that look like spilled spaghetti, and you start to see why they’re panicking. Republicans are finally turning the tables. Texas already pushed through a map that could hand the GOP several more seats. Florida has been weighing its own redraw. And Ohio is legally required to reset its maps before the midterms.
“We’re literally losing representatives for American citizens in order to give congressional representation to illegal aliens,” says @VP.
“Republicans are trying to balance out the scales a little bit for basic fairness and for the integrity of our democracy.” pic.twitter.com/uxxDXQJege
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) August 24, 2025
What happens if Trump and Vance take it a step further and fix the census to count only citizens? What if the artificial advantage Democrats have been sitting on evaporates overnight?
That’s when the real meltdown begins. The party that’s been redrawing lines for decades will suddenly rediscover its love for “fair maps.” The pundits will cry about democracy dying in darkness. The lawsuits will fly. But at the end of the day, what Vance made clear is this: Republicans aren’t breaking the system. They’re trying to restore it.
And if that restoration happens before the midterms, Democrats won’t just be losing a narrative. They’ll be losing seats. Lots of them. Which is exactly why they’re terrified.
