Republicans Gerrymander Diablos de Texas and eliminate 5 democratic seats

Texas Republicans responded to President Donald Trump’s call to re -draw the Maps of the State Congress before the intermediate works of 2026 by launching a new map that eliminates five seats from the House of Representatives in the hands of the Democrats and creates five new seats that voted for Trump in 2024.

The new map would produce 30 republican seats and only eight democratic seats. I would do it by dividing five seats in the hands of the Democrats in the cities of Houston, Dallas and Austin and in the very Latin River Valley. The goal is to help Republicans maintain their margin of four thin seats in the Chamber in the 2026 elections to avoid any significant supervision of the Trump administration of a democratic controlled body.

The elimination of five democratic seats and the creation of five Republican seats would cause a swing of 10 votes in favor of the Republican Party, giving them a more comfortable mattress in case they lose seats in other states, such as the party of the starting president almost always always does so in the medium -term elections. But it comes with a lot of risks.

The Democrats and some experts in redistribution of districts had raised the possibility that the new Gerrymander becomes what is called a “dummyMemander”. It was then that a Gerrymander does the party seats, redrawing the lines, more vulnerable to maximize the total number of seats they could win. However, if there is a strong anti-consumbent wave promoted by an unpopular president, those seats could suddenly come into play for the Democrats.

“The Republicans of Donald Trump and Texas are playing a dangerous game, and we are ready to defeat the republicans now vulnerable next November,” said Katarina Flicker, spokesman for the majority of the House of Representatives, a Super Pap of the Democratic Party, in a statement. “We are bringing all the weight of our operation to the state of the Lone star to make this deal in the back room be counterproductive and recover the house in 2026”.

But the new map is designed to avoid this. Trump won the 30 seats of the Republican Party created in the new map for 10 points or more, and the map does not significantly dilute the existing districts of the GOP.

Even so, Democrats could compete in four of the new districts, according to the Politics Center.

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On the other hand, the new map is based on Latin voters who moved strongly to their column in 2024 to continue voting Republican. Trump won 55% of the Latin vote in 2024 about concerns about the economy and border security, according to the Texas policy project. With the border crossings detained effectively and the economic indicators that do not move in a markedly positive direction since 2024, will these voters remain in the column of the Republican party? Republicans are making a great commitment that these are now republican and non -voting voters.

That would matter more in the Rio Grande Valley, where the new map adds republicans to two seats currently held by Democratic representatives Henry Cuellar and Vicente González. These seats will go 52% and 53% of Trump voters at 55%. The Latin vote could also import in the other seats, the map stops by the Democratic representatives. Marc Veasey, Greg Casar, Lloyd Doggett and Julie Johnson.

While the new map makes the districts of Cuellar and González more friendly for the Republican Party, divide the other districts controlled by the Democrats. Casar and Doggett would be forced to run in the same seat based in Austin under the new map, unless one of them would risk running on a less friendly terrain. The same could happen with Johnson and Veasey, since the District based in Dallas de Johnson would effectively handle the Republican Party, while Fort Worth’s operations base of Veasey would be eliminated from his current district.

The Democrats have promised to fight against the movement of the Republican party disputing the seats in the new maps and the courts. The majority of the PAC representatives plans to invest $ 20 million in Texas to attack the headlines of the Republican Party and protect Democrats with advertising, registration of voters and an focus on the dissemination of Latinos.

The fusion of the new map of “Districts 35 and 37 is the illegal suppression of voters of the black and Latin central jeans,” he said in a statement. “By merging our central Texas districts, Trump wants to commit another crime, this time, against the voters of Texas and against the Voting Rights Law of Martin Luther King of 1965”.

Marina Jenkins, Executive Director of the National Committee of Democratic Redistites, said in a statement: “Texans deserve better than this, and if the legislature and the governor continue the promulgation of this atrocious Gerrymander, he will face fierce legal challenges.”

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Texas Democrats and residents could file a complaint of the Voting Law in the Court against the new map, although it is likely to meet a 5th hostile circuit and the Supreme Court that has been seeking to further destroy the Voting Rights Law.

The impulse to re -draw the map of the Texas Congress directly from the Trump administration when I do me Dhillon, attached attorney general of the Civil Rights Division, sent a letter to Texas officials declaring that four districts controlled by Democrat violated the Voting Rights Law and threatened legal actions. Although this statement was false, it led Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, to call a special session to draw a new map.

Meanwhile, Trump explicitly declared the partisan objective of the Charter of the Department of Justice and the redistribution of districts that caused on July 15, saying: “I think we will obtain five” Republican seats.

The new map is likely to activate a gerrymandering arms race while Democrat controlled states seek to draw their maps again to eliminate seats controlled by the Republican party. The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, has already declared that he is looking for ways to overcome the constitutional amendment of the State that requires that the districts be drawn by an independent commission. “California will not be sitting apart”, his press office Posted in Social Networks After the new Texas map was launched. Senator Chris van Hollen (D-Md.) proposed that Maryland’s native state do the same and eliminate the only seat controlled by the State Republican Party.

Former Attorney General Eric Holder, who is also president of the National Democratic Redistites Committee, said in Wednesday that Democrats should respond with their own Gerrymanders despite their opposition to practice.

“[W]And do not oppose, on a temporary basis, responsible responsible actions to ensure that the foundations of our democracy are not permanently erected, “said Holder.” Once this time has been approved, measures must be established at the federal and state level to prohibit the actions that have precipitated this crisis. “