Democrats are a MINORITY in both houses of Congress!

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36. Actually, in 2016, repub House Candidates got more votes than Democratic House Candidates

Repub candidates got around 63,200,000 or 49.1 percent of the votes cast in House races. Democratic candidates got around 61,800,000 pr 48 percent.

That being said, the repubs won 57 percent of the seats. But to a certain extent, the possibility that total vote percentage won't align with total number of seats won is baked into the system, with or without gerrymandering. That's because there always are and have been (even before gerrymandering became as prevalent as it is now) some races that are landslides and others that are squeakers and where some candidates are, in fact, unopposed.

For example, in 2008, the Democrats captured 53.2% of the votes cast in House races compared to the repubs getting 42.6 percent. But the Democrats ended up with 59 percent of the seats and the repubs only with 40 percent.

In short, looking at the national vote in 435 separate house races doesn't really tell much of anything.

My pointing this out is not intended to downplay in any way the problems of gerrymandering and vote suppression. Just to point out that arguments based on national House vote totals don't actually prove much.