Democrat Rep Lloyd Doggett Conveniently Leaves Out Blue States’ Wildly Partisan District Maps When Attacking GOP

Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas claimed Monday that Democratic-controlled states practiced “nonpartisan” redistricting that was “fair” during an appearance on CNN, ignoring three-dimensional maps in some of those states.

The Texas Legislature approved new congressional district maps after Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives ended their “quorum break” on August 18. Doggett expressed concern about the impacts of the Supreme Court’s potential ruling in a Louisiana redistricting case, saying it would make Republican state maps even less fair and force Democrats to abandon supposedly “nonpartisan” approaches.

“What this will devastate is the ability of people in all communities to have their voices heard at all levels of government,” Doggett said. “I think the consequences will be much more serious for a local school board, a city council, a county government, but yes, it could impact Democrats in Congress as well.” (RELATED: Eric Holder Says Democrats Should Make Supreme Court Part of 2028 Platform)

“That’s why it’s so important that the California referendum in a few weeks is approved and that everyone continues to resist Trump’s efforts to do elsewhere what he did in Texas,” Doggett continued. “I hope our court invalidates these cards and I can continue to serve, but the most important thing is that our democracy continues to serve all communities and this court decision could really be a setback.”

Doggett offered hope that Democrats could win some of the newly drawn districts, but said he would retire if the maps held up.

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“I would like to see every state in the country – and I have supported this with legislation – have nonpartisan redistricting, but it cannot be that fair, nonpartisan redistricting only happens in Democratic states and is ignored with extreme gerrymandering like has happened here in Texas,” Doggett asserted. “When Trump said he wanted five more Republicans, Texas Republicans asked: How soon can we get them? I still think we can win some of these seats that they narrowly won, but we have to try as hard as we can.”

Maryland Democratic Gov. Wes Moore said during an August appearance on “Face the Nation” that Maryland Democrats could attempt to redraw district lines to expel Republican Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland, the only Republican in the state’s congressional delegation. While Democrats won seven of the eight seats in the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2024 election, according to Ballotpedia, President Donald Trump received 34.1% of the vote and former Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, the GOP nominee for the seat vacated by Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin, received 42.8% of the vote.

The map Illinois adopted ahead of the 2022 midterm elections eliminated two Republican seats. The blue state, which lost a House seat in the 2020 census, went from 13 Democrats and five Republicans after the 2020 elections to 14 Democrats and three Republicans in the state’s House delegation after the 2022 midterms, according to Ballotpedia.

Although Republicans Mitt Romney and Charlie Baker have won gubernatorial elections and Scott Brown has won a special election in Massachusetts since 2000, no Republican has been elected to the U.S. House of Representatives since 1996, when then-Republican Reps. Peter Blute and Peter Torkildsen lost their re-election bids, according to Ballotpedia. (RELATED: JB Pritzker Ducks Ask Question When Pressed on Hypocrisy of Illinois Gerrymandering)

New York redrew its congressional districts after the 2022 midterm elections, creating a map that endangered up to six of the 11 Republicans initially elected to the state’s House delegation. Democrats had 19 seats to Republicans’ seven when counting votes after the 2024 elections, a significant gain from the 15 seats they had after the 2022 midterm elections, according to Ballotpedia.

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