Will Texas be as ‘gerrymandered’ as California?
Texas Public Coverage Vice President Chuck DeVore addresses whether or not Texas will likely 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 certain add extra Home seats to the Lone Star’s Republican delegation.
Final week, Texas Home Republicans launched a redistricting proposal that would 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 known 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 Pictures)
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 can also drive some Democratic lawmakers into major battles in opposition to fellow incumbents as seats develop into extra restricted.
For instance, if the map had been adopted, Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett, who presently represents Texas’ thirty seventh Congressional District within the Austin space, could 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., known as preventing the proposed map an “all-hands-on-deck second.”
Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries speaks in opposition to 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 by way of Getty Pictures)
“We are going to combat them politically. We are going to combat them governmentally. We are going to combat them in courtroom. We are going to combat them by way of successful the hearts and minds of the individuals of Texas and past,” Jeffries mentioned final week throughout a press convention in Austin.
Jeffries mentioned that whereas firms and universities fall in keeping with Trump, “Texas Democrats won’t 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 might unfold nationwide as a part of a broader push to bolster Republican energy.
“Individuals throughout the nation are watching what we’re doing in Texas,” Fletcher mentioned.
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