Anyone who has been paying attention to history knows about gerrymandering. This is where congressional districts are designed to provide significant advantage to one of the two parties. While Republicans also do this, Blue Democrat states provide some extreme examples. When Texas Democrats are throwing a hissy fit regarding Republicans gerrymandering, this is a classic example of “people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.” Texas Democrats fled to Illinois. Illinois may be the most notable example of this issue. Then Massachusetts threatened to gerrymander, before they realized they didn’t have any Republican representatives in congress.
Part of the problem is that Democrats allowed millions of people to cross our southern border, illegally. They then encouraged them to vote. In California anyone can get a driver license regardless of citizenship status. They are also automatically registered to vote, asking people to avoid voting if they are not eligible. Right!
California did not even attempt to reconcile their driver license records or voter registration records with national citizen databases. In addition, if you live in California, you know there is zero attempt to verify voter ID. Instead, people can pick up ballots from other people and drop them off at a ballot drop station. This is a recipe for fraud and Democrats used to agree, until they realized it was helping them stay in power.
According to “America Now,” California had to remove 3.1 million ineligible voters from its voter rolls. Here is the article explaining this.
3.1 Million Ineligible Voters Removed in California, Congress Notified – America Now
The bottom line is that California’s voter roll reduced from 22.1 million in 2020, to 18.9 million today. This was not a surprise to those who left California for Florida.
For years Democrats have accused Republicans of stealing elections. Democrats impeached Donald Trump for pointing out, correctly, that Joe Biden appears to have been involved in corruption in Ukraine. That allegation, predictably, centered around Hunter Biden. There is zero doubt that Biden threatened Ukraine with the loss of $1 billion in U.S. aid unless they fired a prosecutor. That prosecutor was investigating Hunter Biden. There is video verifying this, but Democrats didn’t care.
Here is an article from the U.S.A. Today, admitting Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion in aid unless prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, was fired. Shokin was investigating Burisma, and Hunter Biden was on the Board of Burisma, but the U.S.A. Today concluded that this was irrelevant because Ukraine fired Shokin because he wasn’t investigating Ukraine politicians. Typically, the MSM bought that silly argument and agreed that when Trump asked Ukraine about this, he was trying to rig an election.
Fact check: Joe Biden leveraged Ukraine aid to oust corrupt prosecutor
The U.S.A. Today analysis was absurd. They admitted that: It’s true that Joe Biden leveraged $1 billion in aid to persuade Ukraine to oust its top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, in March 2016. But it wasn’t because Shokin was investigating Burisma. It was because Shokin wasn’t pursuing corruption among the country’s politicians.
Charlie Kupchan, who was a special assistant to President Barack Obama and a senior director for European Affairs on the National Security Council, said anti-corruption efforts were “a big part of our diplomacy” with Ukraine, since “it was that corruption that allowed Russia to manipulate the country politically and economically.”
Brilliant. Corruption allowed Russia to manipulate the country politically and economically. That explains why Putin invaded Crimea while Obama was President and Ukraine while Biden was President. Imagine if Trump did something like this. There is zero chance the MSM would have bought this nonsense.
California cleared up its voter database because California driver licenses did not meet the standard for a Real Id. States were warned that soon people could not travel without a Real ID. I remember when my wife and I had to get a replacement driver license, which met the standards of a Real ID if we wanted to travel on an airline without having our passport. We had to provide documentation of residence and citizenship. Prior to this, California didn’t check national citizenship databases, and they didn’t even provide the option for anyone else to do that. Now that this data is finally available, the results were the sudden removal of 3.1 million names from the voter registry. Democrats and the MSM are pretending this doesn’t matter. Their reactions sure look like panic to me.
Gavin Newsom wants a voter referendum to let California Democrats gerrymander the state, again, to keep Democrats permanently in control. But if any significant portion of those 3.1 million people removed from the voter database were Democrats, they shouldn’t be all that optimistic about results.
Democrats engaged in more gerrymandering because they held the majority for many years. This does not mean Republicans wouldn’t have done the same thing, but it does mean the hyperventilating is just another example of hypocrisy by Democrats and their MSM cheerleading squad.
Regardless of what anyone thinks, the likely result is more gerrymandering in red states, which will cost Democrats seats in congress. The reason is beyond obvious. Blue states have already been gerrymandered by Democrats to the extent possible. Red states, however, are hugely different and all the hyperbole about the Texas gerrymandering just alerted Republicans to opportunity.
TDM