Less direct impact sure.Gerrymandering impacts the House, it has an infinitesimally small impact on the Electoral College and hence the presidential race. And Dems play the game just as much as Republicans.
Yes, gerrymandering is a form of corruption, yes Republicans do it more than Democrats, but to suggest that Republicans would have significantly less presidents because of the practice is folly.
But it impacts state and federal lower house elections, which impacts voting logistics and restrictions (through laws), which impacts governor's races, state supreme court elections and federal senate elections, which further impacts voting logistics and restrictions for Presidential elections and the makeup of the Supreme Court (who have the final say over gerrymandering and election practices).
Republicans knew what they were doing. Democrats thought they had the federal landscape sorted, but Republicans went to work at the state level to later impact the federal.
Democrats have been trying to even it up, though I'm not sure they are there yet (even at the congressional level).
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