It was once a problem that caused the eyes of the voters to leave.
But in recent weeks, the theme of redistribution of districts, once arcane, backed by the exodus of the Texas Democrats of their state to block the Republican plans to re -draw maps, has become the burning center of democratic policy.
Possible White House candidates 2028 have tried to put themselves in the center of the fight against what they call a republican power in Texas. Thus, they also have a group of Democratic governors, members of Congress and candidates for a position throughout the country.
Far from the days of yesteryear for a mocked match for sending “strongly written letters” while the Republicans vorized them, the Democrats are now shooting their own flamethrower.
It is precisely what the range and file want to see a party that are fed up and disappointed, the Democrats say.
“There are not many times when politics is going through normal people. This is breaking … due to how ruthless people are seeing Republicans, and want to see their democratic leaders fight just as hard,” said Josh Marcus-Blank, a Democratic consultant who has worked in senatorial and presidential campaigns. “Any [Democratic] The voter to think about 2028 is crazy at this time, and they really want the Democrats to stand up and defend themselves. ”
President Donald Trump raised the issue to the national stage when he said that Texas forged his Map of Congress to create up to five more republican districts to protect the narrow majority of the party chamber in the intermediate people of 2026.
While both parties have gerrymandro in the past, the move in Texas stands out because it seeks to destroy the state map in the middle of the decade, instead of after the new census every 10 years. The Democrats left the State to deny a quorum in the Texas Chamber and prevent the Plan of the Republican Party from advanceing. The movement ultimately can only delay the action, since Governor Greg Abbott has promised to call special sessions until he can advance in the new map.
But when Abbott advanced, the heavy batters on the left moved to enter the action.
The Democrats have already gerrymandro to their state to the hilt, but the governor of Illinois JB Pritzker, a potential presidential candidate of 2028, used another route in the center of attention. In June, he silently discussed a way for Texas Democrats to take refuge in their state on the eve of a special legislative session.
The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, has threatened to pursue a redrawn from the Maps of the Congress of his state if the Republicans advance with their plans in Texas. Newsom, however, would need to avoid an independent commission that controls the process of redistribution of districts in California.
“They want to change the game,” Newsom said about Republicans. “We can act simpler than you. We could sit outside, talk about how the world should be, or we can recognize the existential nature that is this moment.”
In another climb on the subject, Newsom declared Tuesday night that Trump had lost a deadline and, therefore, California would be “historical” and “Trump’s presidency will end,” he said in a publication on social networks that mockingly emulated the type of statement that Trump made.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul, declaring: “We are at war,” he also said that he would look for ways to counteract Texas’s plans. Any new map in its status would not enter into force until after the middle of next year.
Former transport secretary Pete Buttigieg, a possible presidential contender, celebrated a live social media forum and published a video on the subject.
“What it shows is that Republicans believe they will lose Congress unless the maps change before the next elections,” Buttigieg said.
After the Texas Republicans first considered publicly to rebuild the map in the middle of the decade, the governor of Colorado Jared Polis, the governor of Maryland, Wes Moore and the governor of Hawaii, Josh Green, turned to the issue of the theme of the National Association of Governors in Colorado at the end of July.
“My party cannot wait and see it to happen and make Congress want the will of the people, whatever. It is completely little ethical for Texas to do this, for Redistite. It is an obvious attempt to steal elections,” Green said in an interview. “If the courts do not stop him, then he will have to fight fire with fire.”
In Illinois, where a competitive career is being carried out to replace the retired senator from life, the main candidates He appeared with Texas Democrats in news events. One day, the representatives. Robin Kelly and Raja Krishnamoorthi promised to build a wall against Trump’s efforts, and the next, he was Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton.
“Now is our time to stop and fight. President Trump and Governor Abbott, we are looking at you. In Illinois, we don’t sit aside. In Illinois, we don’t take threats, and in Illinois, we defend ourselves,” Stratton said before a television cameras rhythm last week. “If Trump and Texas Republicans do not play with the rules, we will see all the options available to stop their extreme capture of power, and nothing will be out of the table.”
Andrew O’Neill, National Defense Director of the Indivisible Progressive Base Group, referred to some of the comments and actions of the Democrats as “productive ambition.”
“Democratic leadership among democratic voters: it is in the bathroom at this time. The democratic base is furious with the state of its party,” O’Neill said.
He added that any Democrat who expects to attract attention on the national stage must show the basis that they know how to take off the gloves.
“If you take the type of silent-adult approach in the room,” we will only be responsible, “nobody pays attention to you and nobody listens to your message,” O’Neill said. “So everything is good for you to publish a boring press release that says that you believe in democracy and fair maps, but if you are not fighting against the Republicans and attracts that strategic conflict, in the economy of attention with which we currently live, nobody will listen to you.”
The host of Texas Democratic legislators in Illinois has given Pritzker a platform to interpret the chief protector, promising to interpose in the path of Trump and Texas officials who authorized the orders of civil arrest.
“There is no federal law that allows the FBI to arrest anyone who is visiting our state,” said Pritzker on Sunday about “Meet The Press” of NBC News. “So it is very great. That’s what this is about.”
Meanwhile, Newsom and Representative Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, the former speaker of the House of Representatives, was half a dozen Texas legislators on Friday in Sacramento, where Newsom declared that California “would annul” the map of Texas Republicans if they advanced.
There are some signs that the actions of the Democrats are winning traction. For example, a new Siena College survey found that Hochul’s work approval and favorability qualifications have increased since June, since he has been in front and in the center in the redistribution debate of districts.
The state representative of Texas, Ramon Romero Jr., who runs the democratic Hispanic Caucus and is among those of Illinois who sit in the special session, said he has been emboldened by the public’s response.
“People have contacted me that I have never had news,” he said.
Romero transmitted comments that his brother, a school teacher, has received.
“Every day, he says: ‘Man, you know, everyone approaches me, telling me how proud they are of you and for the fact that they did not even know what the redistribution of districts was and now they know,” Romero said.
He continued: “If we had turned around, no one would have paid attention. But now they know.”
