Texas Senate, Trump and redistricting
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It all amounts to the opening salvo in what is likely to become a national showdown to grasp power through gerrymandering.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has promised to sign a new congressional voting map gerrymandered to help Republicans maintain their slim majority in Congress.
Texas lawmakers meet again Friday, when the Republican majority in the Senate could give final approval to their map.
California will ask voters this fall to decide whether to redraw this state’s congressional lines after its Democratic-controlled Legislature formally approved a sweeping redistricting plan on Thursday,
Democratic voters loathe partisan redistricting, but support California doing it to counter Texas, according to a new national poll on Gavin Newsom’s high-stakes gerrymander.
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AP analysis shows Texas and California redistricting efforts could mess with rare partisan balance
Moves by Texas Republicans and California Democrats to redraw their U.S. House districts could disrupt a rare partisan balance in American politics.