Voting

The Hill -  Republicans on Capitol Hill are seeking to shift the blame for the redistricting war onto Democrats, downplaying President Trump’s leading role in a gerrymandering frenzy that’s unpopular with voters of all stripes.  Trump instigated the rare, mid-decade redistricting fight last summer when he pressed Texas state Republicans to redraw their map with designs to eliminate five Democratic seats. Republicans were “entitled” to those seats, he argued, because Democratic gerrymandering in other states had disenfranchised GOP voters.

Almost a year later, that same argument is picking up steam in the Capitol, where a growing chorus of GOP lawmakers are racing to defend the president from Democratic charges that he’s trying to “rig” the midterms to keep Republicans in control of Congress for the final two years of his presidency.