<p>Vice President JD Vance delivered a primer to NBC News anchor Kristen Welker during Sunday morning&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;Meet the Press,&#8221; explaining why so many Republican-controlled states were moving to draw new congressional maps ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The move, he said, was a response to decades of Democratic gerrymandering.</p>
<p>Vance pointed to a few key states where because illegal aliens were counted for the purposes of apportionment, those illegal aliens were getting congressional representation at the expense of legal American citizens — and he argued that what Republicans were doing was simply making an effort to balance the scales.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">&#8220;All we&#8217;re doing, frankly, is trying to make the situation a little bit more fair,&#8221; says <a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a> on redistricting.</p>
<p>&#8220;Democrats have gerrymandered their states really aggressively. We think there are opportunities to push back against that, and that&#8217;s really all we&#8217;re doing.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/q06A8CkniT">pic.twitter.com/q06A8CkniT</a></p>
<p>— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1959614788557836519?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;All we&#8217;re doing, frankly, is trying to make the situation a little bit more fair,&#8221; Vance said of the efforts that began with the newly-passed map in Texas.</p>
<p>&#8220;Democrats have gerrymandered their states really aggressively. We think there are opportunities to push back against that, and that&#8217;s really all we&#8217;re doing,&#8221; he added, noting that Democrats in states like Massachusetts, Illinois, and California had been tipping the congressional maps over the last two decades.</p>
<p>Vance went on to point out that part of that imbalance was the result of illegal aliens being counted in the official census — which is used to apportion representation.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re literally losing representatives for American citizens in order to give congressional representation to illegal aliens,&#8221; he said, adding, &#8220;Republicans are trying to balance out the scales a little bit for basic fairness and for the integrity of our democracy.&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">&#8220;We&#8217;re literally losing representatives for American citizens in order to give congressional representation to illegal aliens,&#8221; says <a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;Republicans are trying to balance out the scales a little bit for basic fairness and for the integrity of our democracy.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/uxxDXQJege">pic.twitter.com/uxxDXQJege</a></p>
<p>— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1959618633765896314?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Welker pushed back then, saying that &#8220;of course&#8221; illegal aliens were not allowed to vote.</p>
<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re not eligible to vote,&#8221; Vance agreed. &#8220;But they do go in the congressional apportionment. That&#8217;s why California has so many more seats is because they count illegal aliens &#8230; They end up getting congressional representation that ought, by right, go to American citizens.&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">.<a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a> on illegal aliens in the Census: &#8220;They do go in the congressional apportionment. That&#8217;s why California has so many more seats is because they count illegal aliens&#8230; They end up getting congressional representation that ought, by right, go to American citizens.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/Lfu3kYaM6N">pic.twitter.com/Lfu3kYaM6N</a></p>
<p>— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1959619304350945548?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>President Donald Trump has repeatedly said that he would put an end to illegal aliens being counted in the census.</p>

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