SCOOP: Why Rep. Andy Harris welcomes Maryland Democrats' attempts to gerrymander him out of office: "If the Democrats want to roll the dice, let them roll the dice"

Democrats fail every time they try to gerrymander Maryland. Rep. Andy Harris explains why their latest attempt could get him more Republican colleagues.

While Gov. Wes Moore (D., Md.) has been insisting that he won’t run for president in 2028, he recently became the latest Democrat to embrace partisan gerrymandering in his party’s bid to draw Republicans out of office.

Moore confirmed that “all options are on the table when it comes to the state,” but his dreams of a Republican-free Maryland will likely run head-on into reality.

Rep. Andy Harris (R., Md.) has long welcomed a potential move by Annapolis Democrats to attempt to gerrymander the state — because the courts in Maryland are, in his view, going to swiftly reject the Democrats’ proposal.

“The most partisan thing you could do is gerrymander a state that has had two Republican governors out of the last four into a state that can’t send a Republican to Congress,” Harris told the Reporter. “If the Democrats want to roll the dice, let them roll the dice. I look forward to having more Republican colleagues from the state in Congress, and I think that’s what the result is going to be.”

For years, Democrats have tried and failed to gerrymander Maryland into having no Republicans in Congress. As recently as 2022, Maryland’s highest court — which is filled with appointees by Gov. Larry Hogan (R., Md.) threw out Democrats’ attempts to make the state’s districts even more favorable for Democrats.

Should Maryland Democrats attempt to overreach once more, Harris now expects that the court would ensure that Maryland has maps that actually reflect the state’s voting population.