The State Chamber controlled by Republicans in Texas has approved new Maps of Congress that aim to fill most of the game in Washington up to five seats in the middle of the period elections, a movement that occurs when the battles for the redistribution of districts extend throughout the country.
With Texas ready to completely promulgate their new plan as soon as this week, urged by President Donald Trump, California Democrats are moving rapidly to implement a plan to hide the maps of his state in reprisals. Meanwhile, the main Republicans in states such as Indiana, Missouri and Florida continue to talk about adjusting their maps to create more seats in the congress controlled by Republicans in the 2026 elections. The Reduvado de Ohio, which must be done according to state law, could also benefit the Republican Party.
The governors in the states controlled by Democrat are also weighing an answer, but in many cases, they are restricted by procedural obstacles or other practical limitations, some have already extended their own gerrymanded maps as far as they could go, that could make it difficult for a teta by the plate.
Everything is expected to reach a critical point in a matter of weeks, in the context of a race for the majority of Congress in Washington that is at the edge of a knife.
The final result in Texas
The legislators of the Texas Chamber controlled by the Republican Party approved their map on Wednesday, days after the Democrats returned from a “quorum rest” of two weeks in which they fled the State to retain the bill. But they could only delay, not derail, the new Republican maps, which convert three deep blue districts into deep reds and incline two Texas districts of the southern Democratics South towards the Republican Party.
State representative Todd Hunter, a Republican who represents Corpus Christi and Copatrocinó the new map, began the day with some direct conversations.
“The underlying objective is that this plan is simple: to improve republican political performance,” he told his colleagues, adding that the quid of changes in the maps center in five districts that “now tend to the republican trend in political performance.”
“While there is no guarantee of an electoral success, Republicans will now have the opportunity to win those districts,” he added.
After a handful of legislators remained in the Chamber during the night to protest the leadership of the Chamber for demanding that the Democrats agree the police escorts to ensure that they do not try to jump into the city again, the Democrats took the floor to criticize their republican colleagues for the maps. They questioned whether their Republican colleagues really did not take into account the racial compositions of the districts, as they affirmed, warning the Democrats “their day in the Federal Court.” They also rushed in their programming in the special legislative session, which put the redistribution of districts in the calendar before voting on relief for the victims of the floods of July in the Hill country.
“This is the map of Donald Trump. Five more republican seats in Congress is clearly and deliberately because Trump himself knows that voters are rejecting his agenda and, instead of respecting that rejection, he is changing the rules,” said state representative John Bucy III of Austin, a Democrat. “Instead of listening to people who are trying to silence them, and Texas Republicans have been more than willing to help.”
California Democrats move to retaliate
The California Legislature saw a one -hour hearing on Tuesday as the Democrats accelerate towards the approval of the legislation that will require a special autumn choice that puts the redistribution of districts in the electoral ballot. Voters will decide whether to cancel the State Independent Distriction Commission and approve temporary maps of Democratic Drawings for the rest of the decade.
These maps are the political inverse of Texas, which endangers a handful of regular Republicans and put the Democrats in a position to obtain up to five seats from the new map of California, according to the estimates of the Policy Center of the University of Virginia.
The audience became controversial in the midst of interruptions and partisan confrontations between legislators. Republicans repeatedly accused Democrats to waste state resources (a special election throughout the State would cost significant funds, and for overcoming the agreement that trained the redistribution panel of independent districts of the State in the first place.
“California should lead the way: when other states decide to do anything else, we should not react to them, we must demonstrate, for example, we can do this better. We create the foundations for the rest of the nation,” said state assemblyman David Tangipa, Republican of the Fresno area.
Steve Bennett, a state democratic legislator of Ventura, lashed out at the redistribution of districts of the mid -Texas by comparing it with the power of the “autocrats” as the Russian president Vladimir Putin.
“We prefer the agreement that we all had to play with the old rules,” he said. “But when the autocrats change the rules and rules we are using to decide who has power, we can defend themselves or potentially lose the ability to fight again.”
Democrats need maps to pass through the legislature soon to ask the voters this fall, if they want to promulgate the maps in time for the intermediate works of 2026.
Republicans seek to delay that, with a group of legislators who demand this week, arguing that the Democrats have not given the public the time required to review the legislation before voting.
Other states weigh to the fray
While attention remains in California and Texas, the redistribution of districts remains a living ball in other states.
Ohio must draw its lines again by law, since the state legislature approved its 2021 map without democratic support. The moment could work well for Republicans, who control the legislature there and could win depending on how maps are drawn.
Two of the three members of the Ohio Democratic Chamber won the re -election of the last cycle in less than 3 percentage points.
In Indiana, the Republican members of the State Congress have announced in recent days their support for a redrawn there, where the party already controls seven of the nine seats of the congress.
The Governor of Indiana, Mike Braun, Republican, has not said if he plans to ask for a special session of the Legislature. But Vice President JD Vance traveled to Indiana earlier this month to meet with the governor as the redistribution debate of districts revolved.
In Missouri, Republicans have been cheating Governor Mike Kehoe to call a special legislative session to redistribute there, where the Republican party controls six of the eight seats in Congress.
In Florida, Republican governor Ron Desantis said this week that people can “anticipate” a redrawn in the middle of the decade because there has been a “sea change in demography” from the 2020 census.
Outside California, where their efforts are subject to the approval of voters, the Democrats face a handful of other challenges if they want to draw maps again in other states.
The governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, who has vocally supported the attempts of the Democrats of the House of Representatives of Texas to delay the process of redistribution of districts in his native state, has not ruled out an impulse of redistribution of districts in his backyard. But the Democrats already have 14 of the 17 districts of the State Congress there.
New York Democrats are also interested in re -drawing the lines there, but face logistic obstacles to change the state constitution, which would probably mean that there are no changes until 2028 as soon as it is very soon.
