How Republican efforts to redraw congressional maps ‘failed epically’

But, says one expert, it would be misleading to say that gerrymandering did not work at all in this election

If there was one obvious conclusion from Democrats' sweeping victories in the mid-term elections on Tuesday, it seemed to be that the Republican effort to redraw congressional districts in their favor backfired.

Starting last summer, Trump and Republican allies undertook an aggressive effort to redraw congressional districts, reconfiguring the lines to give Republican candidates an advantage. Ahead of the midterms, Republicans redrew 15 seats to their advantage. After Tuesday's election, they appear poised to lose all but two of them. It was definitely the wrong move," an unnamed House Republican told Fox News. One of the truisms in politics is never to overreach. We did and that was part of the reason for the backlash."