Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York said Republicans winning the 2026 midterm elections would be the “biggest way” to respond to Democrats’ attempts to retake power.
York said Democrats’ rhetoric about President Donald Trump is to make voters within their party think any measure is “justified” to win elections.
“The political value to Democrats of calling President Trump a dictator, a fascist, comparing him to Adolf Hitler, the practical benefit of all that is to create in Democratic voters a sense that with a threat being so serious, any measure is justified if it resists or opposes Donald Trump,” York said on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle Monday.
Republicans and Democrats have been redrawing congressional maps across the country in ways that may help them win more races in the upcoming election.
Democrats discussed overhauling the Virginia Supreme Court by lowering the retirement age after the court struck down a ballot measure passed by voters to redraw the state’s congressional map to lean more Democratic.
Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said Democrats are “exploring” judicial reforms too, following another loss for Democrats in the redistricting showdown.
SUPREME COURT CLEARS THE WAY FOR ALABAMA TO REDRAW CONGRESSIONAL MAP
In April, the Supreme Court struck down a congressional map that created two majority-black districts in Louisiana v. Callais, weakening Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
York said he doesn’t think the “crazy stuff” Democrats are pursuing will change the outcome of the 2026 elections.