Democrats face the criticism of the Gerrymandering in the middle of the Texas redistribution battle

Democrats are fighting tooth and nails to stop the plan of the legislators of Texas to redraw the card of the State Congress, but the criticisms, including an eminent member of their own party, say that they do not hold the moral ground exactly.

Democratic legislators fled the state to avoid votes on redistribution, which should add more republican seats to the Congress for the Lone Star State. They receive the treatment of rock star when they visit the Blue States, where several governors have promised to make the Republicans of their own delegations in Congress in retaliation for Texas.

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The legislators of the State of Texas embark aboard a bus after a press conference at the headquarters of the Democratic Party of the County Depage on August 03, 2025 in Carol Stream, Illinois. (Scott Olson / Getty Images)

However, the Democratic strategist Julian Epstein said on Saturday “Fox News Live” that his party was not immune to criticism, because many blue states have already gerrymanded in a way that limits the republican representation of the Congress.

“No, I think they do not have moral authority, and there are a lot of snack beads,” he said.

Several blue states, including Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Mexico, have no republicans in their delegations at home. And many have oddly drawn districts, apparently designed to limit the representation of the GOP.

“Democrats have no clean hands here. You look at states like Massachusetts, New Jersey (…) Illinois, California and Democrats actually have Gerrymanders Republicans by existence,” added Epstein.

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JB Pritzker, Governor of Illinois, on the left, and the representative of the State Gene Wu, Democrat in Texas, during a press conference at the Bureau of the Docute Party of Dupage in Carol Stream, Illinois, United States, Sunday, August 3, 2025.

Epstein warned that the national redistribution battle could create a “downward race” and to leave the Republicans and Democrats in the states led by the opposite parties could lead to the loss of people in the democratic process. Epstein cited New Jersey, in which Trump raised 46% of the votes in 2024, but the Republicans have only three of the 12 seats in the Congress.

Meanwhile, the representative of the state of Texas, Brian Harrison, a republican, told Fox News Digital on Saturday that the Democrats were guilty “of total hypocrisy and false indignation”.

“The dirty little secret is that the Democrats have no problem with the States, the States have redrawn their Congress cards to maximize the partisan political advantage. They are simply furious that republican states are starting to redraw their cards,” said Harrison.

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California Governor Gavin Newsom attended a press conference on July 2, 2025 in Burbank, California. (CARLIN STIEHL / LOS Angeles Times via Getty Images)

“It is because the Democratic State after the Democratic State, for a decade, has brought hell from their congress cards,” he said.

“Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, Rhode Island, Delaware, all of these states are zero. If you are a republican in these Democratic States, you have no votes in the Congress,” he added. “And (there are) many, many others who gave you a single seat, Oregon, I think that Maine and Maryland.”

In California, a special election should occur in November to counter the Texas redistribution plan.

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“We are talking about emergency measures to respond to what’s going on in Texas, and we will cancel what’s going on in Texas,” California Gavin Newsom said on Friday with Texas State legislators.

“We will take five seats with people’s consent. And this is the difference between the approach we adopt and the approach they adopt,” added Newsom. “We do it on a temporary basis. We do it in a completely transparent way and we do so by asking the inhabitants of the State of California their consent and their support.”

Harrison explained that the Rediscup on Texas has many reasons behind it, including population growth in the Lone Star State since the last census.