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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. California has been in the news recently because it’s going to have an unusual redistricting effort. That means we’re going to redraw the maps of our 52 congressional seats.

And we’re gonna do that, according to our governor, because Texas has been doing that. And California Gov. Gavin Newsom is running for president in 2028, so he wants to show that he is on the cutting edge of Democratic opposition to Texas.

But there’s a problem. Texas doesn’t have an independent commission—not that they’re really independent, but in theory, they are. They just gerrymander. And Texas has an underrepresentation of Republicans in congressional seats.

What I mean by that, if you look at the aggregate vote in Texas for the president or for senators or for the state Legislature, and you get an aggregate Republican versus Democrat vote, and then you see how many seats they have and does that percentage represent it? The majority—no, it doesn’t in Texas.

In fact, most red states, if the 50 states are ranked 1 to 50, do the number of congressional seats in this state represent the Republican or Democratic aggregate overall vote, as adjudicated by either state legislature races or statewide races, or the presidency or the senators? You can use different formulas, but they’re pretty much the same, that red states do not—not that they don’t gerrymander, but they don’t gerrymander as effectively. So, that’s why........

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