Vance says Republican redistricting efforts remedy Democratic gerrymandering in blue states

Vice President J.D. Vance said the GOP-led push to redraw congressional maps in red states ahead of the midterm elections is a direct response to the way Democrats in blue states have been doing business.

Mr. Vance recently made the case to Gov. Mike Braun and legislative leaders in Indiana that they should consider redrawing their maps to better reflect the will of the people on the national level.

“Blue states have really aggressively gerrymandered,” Mr. Vance said Friday in an interview that aired on “Sunday Morning Futures.” “If California has crazy gerrymandered districts, Illinois has crazy gerrymanders, New York has crazy gerrymanders, what it does is it actually suppresses the will of the people in states like Indiana.”

Gov. Greg Abbott and fellow Republicans in Texas have led the charge on redistricting.

Democrats have fled the state in an attempt to thwart their efforts, which have sparked a national political battle over redistricting that could alter the contours of the political landscape in upcoming election cycles.

Mr. Vance said that his message to leaders in Indiana and other red states is that it is only fair for Republicans to take decisive action in redistricting because states such as California have been rewarded with too many congressional seats due to illegal immigrants being counted in congressional reapportionment.