Texas redistributed hearing descends into chaos
Isaiah Martin, a Democrat, who is running for the 18th Congress district in Houston, had to hear the redistribution after crossing his time to testify before Thursday’s House Committee hearing. (Through Isaiah Martin Storyful)
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President Donald Trump and Republican are moving at an extraordinary push to resume the Congress district map before next year’s midnight elections, when GP will defend the majority of its reserved house.
And the Democrats are trying to fight back against the controversial tricks of Republican.
Texas GOP State MPs will unveil the revival maps of their proposed new Congress in early Wednesday, a well -associated Republican source in Lone Star State confirmed Fox News Digital.
Meanwhile, the top Democrat in the House is expected to visit Texas on Wednesday evening with a Democrat in the State Legislature at a meeting in Austin.
Texas Democratic MPs prepared to escape from the Red State to blunt the GOP Congress’s redistribution.
The MPs of the Republican state in the Texas Legislature may unveil the revival maps of the new Congress in early Wednesday. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffrees has “accused Republican of being afraid of voters in 2026 and they are trying to cheat to win.”
The Republican push in Texas is part of a broad effort by GOP across the country to keep home control, and there is cushion loss elsewhere in the country, as the party traditionally faces political headwinds in power and loses seats in mid -term elections.
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Trump and his political team are targeting to stop what happened during their first term at the White House, when Democrats returned to grab the majority of the House in the 4th of 2018.
“Texas will be the greatest,” The President recently told reporters, as he predicted the number of GOP-friend seats, which could be firmly connected through redistribution in the red state. “Just a simple raid, we raise five seats.”
On July 15, 2025, President Donald Trump spoke to reporters, leaving the White House with the White House press secretary Karolin Lewit. (AP)
Democrats control only 12 of the 38 Congress districts in the state, with a blue leaning seat vacant after the death of rape march. Sylvester Turner.
The GOP idea is to transfer Democratic voters from competitive seats to nearby Gop-Landing districts and to transfer Republican voters to neighboring districts, currently controlling democrats.
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But this step is potentially risky.
Recently veteran Texas -based Republican strategist Brendon Steinhaoser recently told Fox News, “There is some risk of making safe Republican seats more competitive, and I think incumbents are definitely concerned about it.” “If you talk to the Republican members of the Congress, they are going to be worried about their seats. They do not want to stay on a seat that is more competitive.”
Steinhoser noted “This is a tradeoff for Republican, if you want to increase the majority.”
But he said that “people who draw maps … they do not want to make any seat competitive because it will beat the objective.”
Depending on the latest American census data, it is usually redistributed in the beginning of each decade. Recapture of mid-decade is unusual-but not without exemplary.
Democrats Trump and Texas Republican are described as power grab, and vow to take legal action to prevent any changes in the existing Congress map.
And in blue-dominated states, Democrats are now trying to fight with fire.
“Two can play this game,” California Gowin Gavin Newsom Recently written on social media.
The next day, after a meeting, Democrats, in a California Congress delegation, said that they were on board with an ambitious plan to get at least five seats through redistribution. Democrats currently control 43 out of 52 Congress districts of Golden State.
Democratic village. Gavin Newsom Red-State of California is considering pushing a redistribution in his blue state to combat Republican efforts in Texas. (Paul Sinehoser – Fox News)
After his two -day stop in Jeffrees, Texas, the state is headed by California for meetings with Democrats.
But it will not be easy to apply change, because in California, the Congress maps are prepared by an independent commission, which should not allow the bias to affect their work.
Newsom has suggested that the Democratic-controlled Legislature of the state, while moving forward with the redistribution of the middle decade, argued that the 17-year ballot could not be forbidden by the initiative which formed an independent commission.
The Governor also proposed to hold a special election to cancel the Commission before the mid -term elections of 2026.
Both schemes are considered long shots, as they will withstand a lot of legislative, legal and financial obstacles.
Other heavy-populated blue states are also considering changing their maps, including Democrats- New York, Illinois and New Jersey, but there are redistributed limitations in their formation of their state.
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Meanwhile, Ohio requires laws for redistribution this year, and a redistribution of the map in a red-shrine state can provide GOP with three and Congress seats.
And Republicans are also reducing the recitation of the mid -decade which can give GOP to a couple of household seats in red states such as Florida, Missouri and Indiana.
