The Republican plan to unseat the Democrats and retake Congress has backfired on Trump. In Texas, the gerrymander could cost Republicans six seats they currently controlbecause the Texas gerrymander was based on the assumption that Trump and his party could keep Latino voters with them.
However, Republican support for Latino voters has crashed so what the Republican Party assumed would be a strength in Texas has turned into a potentially corrosive weakness.
Dark red states like Kansas and Indiana have refused to join Trump’s gerrymander plan, saying the president has started something that could cost him and his party control of Congress.
Losing Congress would make Trump a lame president, and that’s all the president cares about. Donald Trump doesn’t care about the future of the Republican Party or what happens to the American people. At some level, Trump is only investing in the midterm elections because a Republican defeat would impact him.
The counterproductive effect of gerrymandering has led Republicans to increasingly claim that it is Democrats who are trying to rig the midterm elections.
Republicans started the gerrymandering war, and now that they’re losing, the Republican Party is trying to play the victim, but House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries didn’t buy that when he sat down with CNN’s Manu Raju.
