Democrats, not Trump, started the gerrymander fight 

No, President Trump is not responsible for the unconscionable gerrymandering that just took place in Virginia. And, no, his backing of a similar measure in Texas did not trigger the recent wave of shameful partisan redistricting.

That’s the popular narrative being spun by Democrats and their handmaidens in the liberal press. The New York Times, which describes Virginia’s new congressional plan as “one of the country’s most aggressively gerrymandered maps,” admits the redistricting push in the Commonwealth “is a stark reversal for a party that has decried partisan gerrymandering for decades.” But, the Times says, Democrats explain the map redraw was necessary “to counter similar GOP efforts in Texas and other states.”  

Baloney. As Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) stated in a post on X, “New York started it.”  

She’s right, of course. Democrats kicked off this cycle of political hardball when they attempted an unusual mid-census redrawing of the election maps in New York in 2022 — “completely ignoring,” as Tenney pointed out, “the independent commission they created in 2014.” Their proposed redistricting would almost certainly have eliminated a number of Republican-held seats in the Empire State.   

Trump is a New Yorker; do you seriously believe he was oblivious to the outrageous attempt by Albany Democrats, Attorney General Letitia James, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Gov. Kathy Hochul to disenfranchise Republican voters?  

In 2022, New York Democrats proposed a new election map after the 2020 census took away a congressional district from the state. That year, New York came within 6 points of electing Republican Lee Zeldin governor and........

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