It took two days for a Florida special session to be called and for a new congressional district map be drawn, giving Republicans a greater electoral advantage in the state.
Democrats, of course, are outraged. Gerrymandering in Virginia, taking a state that voted for Republicans at a 48% rate and turning it into a state with 90% Democratic Party representation in Congress, was “fairness,” according to the ballot measure that squeaked by, but adding four more Republican seats in Florida is an outrage, because reasons.
Watching you guys go from celebrating gerrymandering to calling it undemocratic in less than a week is objectively hilarious. https://t.co/44Pz0PsBZl
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 1, 2026
Oh please.
WATCH: Even CNN is admitting how insane the Virginia gerrymander is….
“And just take a look at how this map is structured. What they do is they’ve taken the heavily Democratic areas in the northern area of Virginia, and they’ve created five separate districts that basically… pic.twitter.com/pA7nvlnaWL
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 21, 2026
Democrats have been masters of Gerrymandering for years, and one of the big reasons why they have been importing illegal immigrants is to bump up the numbers in the census to improve redistricting, which will likely net Republicans more seats in the next census.
Dear Democrats whining about Democracy: please explain to America how, out of 21 Congressional seats representing the 6 New England states, there are ZERO Republican Representatives, even though 40% of the electorate are registered Republicans, 48% in New Hampshire alone? pic.twitter.com/NBD57idkCL
— David Burke 🇺🇸 (@ConservativeTht) April 30, 2026
The census itself, in its corrections, concluded (under Biden, no less) that errors in its counts helped Democrats out by overcounting the populations in Blue states and undercounting Red states, so by definition, the current maps are skewed in favor of Democrats.
“Republicans started gerrymandering first”
Illinois Congressional Map
🔵 14 (83%)
🔴 3 (17%)2024 Election Results
🔵 54.37%
🔴 43.47%We have only continued to fight back against the steal that is the Democrat Party yet we’re the “bad guys”
Virginia followed Illinois https://t.co/GmIrmWiQ59 pic.twitter.com/Ny6u2iIl6S
— Shawn (@ArcanesDreamer) April 22, 2026
If you look at Blue states, they pretty clearly violate the basic principles of redistricting, which require compact districts of similar population characteristics.
The new Florida map clearly fits the basic standards. No serpentine districts, no division of geographic areas connected by slim lines. Pretty standard looking, but it definitely benefits Republicans.
That is perfectly legal, if also divisive. Compared to Virginia’s proposed map, it is totally benign. Under the new map, there will be four Congressmen living within 15 miles of each other, while several represent constituents hundreds of miles away.
BREAKING: The Virginia Supreme Court is poised to strike down the 10 Democrat to 1 Republican gerrymandered map as unconstitutional.
Former AG Ken Cuccinelli says a unanimous ruling is likely coming soon.
This power grab may be dead. pic.twitter.com/i7F2s6UMaM
— Jack (@jackunheard) April 23, 2026
I’m not a fan of Gerrymandering, or at least not outrageous Gerrymandering, regardless of who does it.
With that said, I am unsurprised that it happens, as it has since the beginning of the Republic. It is, after all, named after Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry, who signed into law a districting map that included an obviously politically drawn district in 1812.
In practical terms, the limits to Gerrymandering are political: what level of political manipulation will the electorate tolerate, and on what basis are you drawing districts? The Supreme Court rightly ruled that drawing districts based on race is unconstitutional, and that should have been obvious.
There really is no way to completely eliminate at least modest Gerrymandering because even independent commissions are often political. Here in Minnesota, for instance, Minneapolis and Saint Paul could easily be combined into a single congressional district. The citizens have similar interests, distinct from the rest of the state, and they make up one large metro area that is the right population size to be a district.
But our courts drew up the map, and the result benefits the Democrats, because the establishment in Minnesota is Democratic. So be it.
Democrats say that the Republicans started this Gerrymandering war, which is absurd on its face since the political machines in Blue states created ridiculous maps after the last census, and Gerrymandering has been around forever anyway.
Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries last week: “We are in an era of maximum warfare everywhere, all the time.”
Yesterday, a gunman tried to assassinate the President. pic.twitter.com/wcYwTRUyjj
— Bobby LaValley (@Bobby_LaVallley) April 26, 2026
Democrats have been using every legal and illegal tool in the toolbox to destroy Republicans, and are openly talking about executing the Secretary of War, jailing Republicans, packing the Supreme Court, and the Vice Presidential candidate from 2024 said he was “at war” with the federal government while promoting violence against federal law enforcement officers, and promising to jail them.
So spare me the outrage.
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