Byron York calls for redistricting ‘on the basis of the census’

Published August 25, 2025 3:07pm ET



Washington Examiner Chief Political Correspondent Byron York called for a less “flawed” census to dictate U.S. congressional districts.

“I think no doubt it would be better if, after the census every 10 years, every state in a fair and reasonable way redrew its lines, but it doesn’t really work that way,” York said on Fox News’s Sunday Night in America with Trey Gowdy. “The best way to do it, even though it’s a flawed way, has been to do it on the basis of the census every year.” 

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