Will Texas be as ‘gerrymandered’ as California?
Texas Public Coverage Vice President Chuck DeVore addresses whether or not Texas will probably be as ‘gerrymandered’ as California as a brand new congressional proposal creates 5 districts President Donald Trump carried.
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A gerrymandered map proposed by the Texas GOP would kick firebrand Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett out of her personal district and sure add extra Home seats to the Lone Star’s Republican delegation.
Final week, Texas Home Republicans launched a redistricting proposal that might internet 5 new GOP seats. The draft congressional map, which is more likely to change earlier than approval by each state legislative chambers, goals to redraw district traces to incorporate extra Republican-leaning areas in Democratic strongholds like Dallas and Houston.
TEXAS DEMOCRATS THREATEN TO FLEE STATE AND BREAK QUORUM OVER REDISTRICTING PLAN
Crockett, who serves Texas’ thirtieth Congressional District, which represents a big a part of Dallas, has referred to as the redistricting effort “an influence seize to silence voters.”
Rep. Jasmine Crockett speaks throughout a Home listening to within the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 26, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photos)
She has claimed that earlier than Republicans unveiled the map, she was requested to confirm her handle alongside different incumbent Democratic members of Congress.
TEXAS MAP FIGHT ESCALATES AS JEFFRIES VOWS ‘ALL OPTIONS’ TO STOP GOP PLAN
The uncommon mid-decade redistricting effort might also power some Democratic lawmakers into main battles towards fellow incumbents as seats develop into extra restricted.
For instance, if the map have been adopted, Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett, who at the moment represents Texas’ thirty seventh Congressional District within the Austin space, can be positioned in the identical district as Rep. Greg Casar, who serves the neighboring thirty fifth District, additionally anchored in Austin.
Final week, Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., referred to as preventing the proposed map an “all-hands-on-deck second.”
Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries speaks towards Texas redistricting efforts at a information convention on the Texas Capitol in Austin, Thursday, July 31, 2025. Listening are U.S. Reps. Joaquin Castro, Lloyd Doggett, Greg Casar, Lizzie Fletcher and Al Inexperienced. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman through Getty Photos)
“We’ll struggle them politically. We’ll struggle them governmentally. We’ll struggle them in courtroom. We’ll struggle them when it comes to successful the hearts and minds of the individuals of Texas and past,” Jeffries stated final week throughout a press convention in Austin.
Jeffries stated that whereas firms and universities fall according to Trump, “Texas Democrats is not going to bend the knee.”
COURT SIDETRACKS REDISTRICTING FIGHT IN KEY BATTLEGROUND STATE
Standing alongside Jeffries, Texas Democratic Rep. Lizzie Fletcher warned that redistricting efforts like these within the Lone Star State may unfold nationwide as a part of a broader push to bolster Republican energy.
“Folks throughout the nation are watching what we’re doing in Texas,” Fletcher stated.
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