VP Vance: California has ‘way more’ House seats due to large number of illegal immigrants

Vice President JD Vance revealed a perhaps little-known fact this week: Illegal immigrants are counted as part of the population for the purpose of apportioning representatives in the US House of Representatives.

During an interview Sunday with Fox Nation, Vance told hostess Maria Bartiromo that he had not been aware, until a couple of years ago, that “for apportioning representatives, you actually count illegal aliens.”

“So, even though illegal aliens theoretically are not supposed to vote … you still count illegal aliens for congressional apportionment,” he explained. 

“So California has way more House seats than it should because they have such a high population of illegal aliens,” Vance said. “So, they get rewarded for welcoming illegal aliens in their state, giving them federal benefits, actually asking the taxpayers of states like Ohio to subsidize them. And then those same taxpayers in Ohio and Indiana and elsewhere, they have fewer congressional representatives, because of what California has allowed to happen.”

The vice president described this situation as “ridiculously unfair,” adding that “the only real way to fight back against it is for us to redistrict in some ways as aggressively as these hard-blue states have done.” 

Vance’s comments alluded to the Republican Party’s redistricting fight and President Donald Trump’s announcement last week that he has ordered the creation of a new census that would omit illegal immigrants from the population count.

“This could have absolutely enormous implications,” FloridaVoiceNews Assistant News Director Eric Daugherty observed. “Florida, Texas missed out on a Congressional seat in 2020. Blue states are over counted.”

While Democratic Texas lawmakers who abandoned their state were applauded by Democrats in other blue states for blocking redistricting votes, a strategist from their own party said they hold no moral high ground for their decision.

Julian Epstein acknowledged to “Fox News Live” on Saturday that many blue states have themselves gerrymandered in order to restrict Republican congressional representation.

“No, I think they don’t have the moral authority, and there’s a lot of pearl-clutching going on,” Epstein said. “The Democrats don’t have clean hands here. You look at states like Massachusetts, New Jersey […] Illinois, California, and Democrats have effectively gerrymandered Republicans out of existence.”

Fox News noted: “Several blue states, including Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Mexico, have no Republicans in their House delegations. And many feature oddly-drawn districts, seemingly crafted to limit GOP representation.”

Texas state Rep. Brian Harrison, a Republican, also told Fox News Digital on Saturday that Democrats are guilty of “total hypocrisy and faux outrage.”

“The dirty little secret is Democrats have no problem whatsoever with states redrawing their congressional maps to maximize partisan political advantage,” Harrison said. “They’re just furious that Republican states are starting to redraw their maps.”

Asserting that Democrat-led states have been “gerrymandering the hell out of their congressional maps” for a decade, Harrison echoed that “Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, Rhode Island, Delaware, all of these states have zero [GOP US representatives].”

“If you’re a Republican in those Democrat states, you don’t have any voice in Congress,” he added. “And [there are] many, many more that have given you just one seat. Oregon, I think, Maine and Maryland.”

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