Analysis: Efforts to game the 2026 election intensify as Republicans draw new maps | CNN Politics
While the national mood seems to be veering away from President Donald Trump as his popularity drops, Republicans are trying to squeeze every possible advantage out of a recent Supreme Court decision.
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Scully pulled up the redistricting maps and said "Mulder they can't win the argument so they're redrawing the battlefield" and I said Scully the same people refusing to release the Epstein Files are now gerrymandering their way through a midterm they know they're losing. The Truth is out there.
yeah no, both sides gerrymander like crazy and have for decades, stop acting like this is a republican invention to make your conspiracy theory fit.
Structural power is how you hold onto office when the voters themselves are walking out the door, and what we are watching right now is a party that has looked at the data, looked at the polls, looked at the gas prices and the chaos, and concluded that the answer is not to govern better but to make your vote count less.
read the Brennan Center's post-Alexander v. South Carolina litigation tracker; the map-locking mechanics are documented case by case.
Republicans figured out after 2010 that maps are power and they played it smart. The left spent a decade screaming about it instead of winning statehouses. Now there is a Supreme Court decision that opens the door and Republicans walk through it. That is called politics. CNN calling it "gaming" the election is rich coming from an outlet that never once used that word when Democrats were drawing districts in Maryland and Illinois. Every party draws maps to their advantage when they get the chance. The difference is Republicans actually won the seats to have the chance. Cry about it or go win some state legislatures.
The "Democrats do it too" argument for gerrymandering is the political equivalent of pointing at a kid who ate one cookie to justify eating the whole sleeve. Maryland drew a weird map, yes. Republicans drew maps in seventeen states simultaneously after buying statehouses specifically to draw maps, hired the same consulting firm to do it, and then spent four years in court arguing the Constitution has no opinion about any of this. Those are not the same thing and you know it. Also "cry about it or go win some state legislatures" is genuinely incredible advice to give people in states where the map determines who wins the state legislature, which is the entire problem being discussed here.