RealClearPolitics co-founder Tom Bevan discussed the Texas congressional redistricting controversy and the broader future of redistricting during Wednesday’s edition of “Special Report” on FOX News Channel.

BRET BAIER, HOST: Is there a disarmament that needs to happen here, Tom, or are we past that point of mutual assured district destruction? TOM BEVAN, REALCLEARPOLITICS: I think we’re past that point. I mean, I think this is, this is the latest symptom of this sort of long national divorce that we’ve been experiencing over the last, you know, 10 or 20 years, the partisanship, the tribal nature of our politics. And I think this is going to continue. I mean, the only way there’s talk of that, that Congress needs to step in and pass some sort of federal law, take this away from the states. I don’t think it’s feasible. That’s not what Republicans want in red states and not what Democrats want in blue states. It’s just going to get worse. And I don’t know how it gets better. BAIER: If there were not, and I don’t, you’re not going to know this answer off the top of your head, but if there were not redistricting across the country, the gerrymandering that we’ve already seen, do we know approximately what the house would look like at all? BEVAN: I don’t know the answer to that. BAIER: Let’s get ChatGPT on the line. BEVAN: That’s the thing, you can use computing power. You can use AI tools to draw, and people have talked about this, draw really competitive, contiguous, compact districts. That would be the fairest of all, that technology wasn’t around five, 10, 15 years ago. But I guess to my earlier point, I don’t know that anybody’s going to want to employ it.

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