Texas GOP unveils new congressional maps when Trump seeks house edge

president Donald Trump And Republicans are sprinting with extraordinary driving forces to redraw maps of Congressional District ahead of next year’s midterm elections, in which the GOP defends a majority of the razor-sparkly home.

And Democrats are trying to counter the controversial moves of Republicans.

Texas GOP State Assembly Member Lone Star State’s well-linked Republican sources confirmed by Fox News Digital will be rezoning the proposed new Congressional rezoning map on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, the top House Democrats are scheduled to travel to Texas to meet with state legislative Democrats on Wednesday evening at a meeting in Austin.

Texas Democrats are preparing to flee the red state to blunt rezoning the GOP Congress

House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries blamed Republicans “We are afraid of voters in the mid-term elections in 2026, and they are trying to fool us to win.”

The Republican push in Texas is part of a broader effort by the domestic GOP, maintaining control of the home and part of cushion losses elsewhere in the country.

The Texas government says it “flighted” a nation that “flighted” with its election bill.

Trump and his political team are aiming to prevent what happened in his first term at the White House when Democrats raided in the middle of 2018 to win a majority of the home.

“Texas will be the biggest,” the president recently told reporters. Because he predicted the number of GOP-friendly seats that could certainly be added by rezoning in the Red State. “Simply redrawing and you’ll pick up five seats.”

Democrats manage only 12 of the state’s 38 Congressional Districts, with seats that tend to be blue-tendent after the death of Rep. Sylvester Turner.

The idea for the GOP is to move Democrat voters from their competitive seats to the nearby GOP Leaning district, and Republican voters to nearby neighborhoods currently controlled by Democrats.

Governor Greg Abbott And Dan Patrick, both a conservative Republican and Trump’s ally, said it needs to be redeemed due to constitutional concerns raised by the Justice Department over a small minority-controlled district.

Court sidetrack rezoning battles in major battlefield states

However, this movement is potentially dangerous.

“There’s a risk that a safe Republican seat makes it even more competitive, but I think incumbents are certainly worried about it,” veteran Texas-based Republican strategist Brendan Steinhauser recently told Fox News. “When you talk to Republicans in Congress, they’ll be worried about their seats. They don’t want to be in a more competitive seat.”

“It’s a Republican trade-off, if you want to grow the majority,” Steinhauser said.

But he added, “The people who draw the maps…they don’t want to be too competitive because it beats the purpose.”

Rezoning usually takes place at the start of each decade, based on the latest US census data. Mid-term rezoning is rare, but it is not without precedent.

Democrats have denounced Trump and Texas Republicans for what they describe as grabs of power, and have vowed to take legal action to prevent changes to the current map of Congress.

And Democrats in blue-controlled states are now trying to fight fire with fire.

“They can play this game,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom I recently wrote about it on social media.

The following day, after the meeting, Democrats from California’s Congressional Delegation said they had ambitious plans to win at least five seats through district changes. The Democrats currently control 43 of Golden State’s 52 Congressional Districts.

Jeffries heads to California for a meeting with the State Democrats after a two-day stop in Texas.

But in California, it is not easy to enact change as the maps of Congress are drawn by independent committees that are not supposed to affect their work on partisanship.

Newsom suggests that the national Democrat-controlled Congress may not be banned by the 17-year-old voting initiative that created the Independence Committee, moving forward with a mid-term redrawn map.

The governor also proposed to hold a special election promptly to abolish the committee ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

Both plans are considered long shots. Because they face many legislative, legal and financial hurdles.

Democrats in other largely populated blue states, including New York, Illinois and New Jersey, are also considering making changes to the map, but the state’s constitution has restrictions inscribed.

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Meanwhile, Ohio has required a change of district this year by law, allowing GOP to offer up to three Congressional seats by redrawing maps.

Republicans are also pondering mid-term rezoning that could potentially give GOPs more house seats in red states like Florida, Missouri and Indiana.