In Democrats’ perfect world, every state would have independent redistricting commissions. But the national redistricting battle forced their hand, or risked irrelevance.
Francis Chung/POLITICO/AP
Democrats are torn between their long-standing wish for independent redistricting commissions and wanting to play the same redistricting game as Republicans.
The issue is that those are mutually exclusive desires.
“It’s not the way we should be doing it,” Sen. Peter Welch of Vermont told NOTUS of Democrats’ efforts to redistrict blue states in response to Republicans. But when “the president decided to do the redistricting in Texas, he gave us no option but to fight fire with fire.”
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