The congressman running the National Republican Congressional Committee, the campaign arm of the House GOP, just said openly that partisan gerrymandering could help his party retain control of the House in November. Democrats need to flip 24 seats to take control of the House this November. Republicans’ gerrymandering advantage arose out of their control of state legislatures, which run the decennial redistricting process required by the U.S. Constitution. Twenty legislative chambers were flipped from Democratic to Republican control that year, and the electoral maps drawn by the GOP-controlled legislatures entrenched Republican power over the next decade. The National Republican Congressional Committee did not respond to a request for comment.

Source: Huffington Post January 30, 2018 21:00 UTC