A leading Republican just delivered a searing indictment of GOP’s election scheme

Bloomberg Government reports Rep. Blake Moore (R-Utah) is getting anxious about a mid-decade redistricting war degenerating into “a race to the bottom” that will overpower Republicans in 2028.

“I don’t think this is good for Republicans in 2028 and beyond,” said Moore, the vice chair of the House Republican Conference, on Friday at a Bloomberg Government roundtable event. “Because once New York and Illinois and Virginia get their ducks in a row, legally, they’ll obliterate our ability to have a majority.

President Donald Trump kicked off the mid-decade redistricting battle after it became clear that his economic policies were collapsing Republicans’ chances of keeping a House majority, and putting their narrow Senate majority at risk. Trump ordered Republican legislators in Texas to use their majority to redistrict maps and erase as many Democrat districts as possible for the November midterms.

Other red states immediately jumped onboard, helped along by the conservative Roberts Supreme Court, which trampled the Voting Rights Act’s protection for Black-majority districts. As of now, a Virginia state court struck down Democrats attempt to counter Republican map schemes, leaving Democrats at a disadvantage for November. But Moore is convinced the disadvantage will not always be with Democrats as blue states slowly switch into gear and begin their own Republican massacre.

Bloomberg Government reports Moore was the first member of House GOP leadership to publicly denounce Trump’s Texas redistricting plan last August, saying it would kick off severe retaliation in more heavily populated states like New York and California. Then in May, Moore warned local editorial boards that constant mid-decade map changes were a “race to the bottom,” and he urged all 50 state governors to agree on a truce to implement basic, permanent standards by 2030 to prevent perpetual partisan map-drawing.

At the moment, Republicans’ desperate gerrymandering maneuvers do not appear to be neutralizing the extreme hole Trump has put Republicans in with his unpopular policies. Trump's approval ratings are so low that Democrats still have a clear path to the House majority, even if their margin ends up being less than it could have been.

MS NOW analyst Hayes Brown argued that even if Republicans manage to gerrymander their way to keeping the House, the problems they are currently dealing with would still persist.

“Meanwhile, the Democratic voters being deprived of districts don’t vanish into the ether," Brown explained. "Some new districts Republicans are creating will inevitably be less red than they were.