Texas House approves the redrawing plan of Congress Cards to promote Republicans

On Wednesday, the Texas House approved the congresses of the redesigned congress which would give the Republicans a greater advantage in 2026, muscling a gerrymander supporter who launched weeks of demonstrations by democrats and an extended national battle on redistribution.

The approval occurred at the request of the American president Donald Trump, who put pressure for the extraordinary revision of the decade of the Congress cards to give his party a better chance to keep the House of Representatives of the United States in the mid-term elections of 2026. The cards, which would give the Republicans five other winning seats, must be approved by the GOP Senate controlled by the GOP and Texas Greg Abbott before becoming official.

But Texas House’s vote had presented the best chances for Democrats to derail the drafts.

Democratic legislators delayed the two-week vote by fleeing Texas earlier this month to protest, and they were assigned to police surveillance 24 hours a day to ensure that they attended the session on Wednesday.

California Eyes changes her own

The approval of the Texas cards during a vote of 88-52 parties of the party is likely to provoke this week the legislature of the State controlled by Democrat of California to approve a new card of the Chamber creating five new democratic districts. But the Californian card would require the approval of voters in November.

The Democrats also promised to challenge the new Texas card in court and complained that the Republicans made the decision of political power before adopting legislation responding to deadly floods that swept the state last month.

The Texas Republicans openly declared that they were acting in the interest of their party.

The representative of the state Todd Hunter, who wrote the legislation officially creating the new card, noted that the United States Supreme Court has enabled politicians to redraw districts for naked supporters.

“The underlying objective of this plan is simple: to improve republican political performance,” said Hunter, a republican, on the ground.

After almost eight hours of debate, Hunter gained the floor to summarize the whole dispute like nothing more than a partisan fight. “What is the difference, listening to the whole world? The Republicans love, and the Democrats do not do so.”

“ This is the card of Donald Trump ‘

Democrats said the disagreement was more than partisanry.

“In a democracy, people choose their representatives,” said state representative Chris Turner. “This bill returns to this head and allows politicians in Washington, DC, choose their voters.”

State representative John H. Bucy blamed the president.

“It’s Donald Trump’s card,” said Bucy. “He clearly and deliberately manufactures five other republican seats in the Congress because Trump himself knows that voters reject his program.”

The game of republican power has already sparked a national battle in tit-form while the legislators of the Democratic State were preparing to meet in California on Thursday to revise the map of this State to create five new Democratic seats.

“This is a new Democratic party, it’s a new day, it’s a new energy in all this country,” California Governor Gavin Newsom, a democrat with journalists said on Wednesday. “And we are going to fight the fire with fire.”

Obama supports Newsom’s response

A new California card should be approved by voters during a special election in November, because this state normally operates with a non -partisan commission drawing the card to avoid the very political fight that is played out. Newsom himself supported the 2008 voting measure to create this process, just like former American president Barack Obama.

But in a sign of determining the stiffness of the Democrats, Obama supported Newsom’s offer on Tuesday evening to redraw the California card, saying that it was a necessary step to extend the moving of GOP Texas.

“I think this approach is an intelligent and measured approach,” said Obama during a fundraising for the main reducing arm of the Democratic Party.

The party of the outgoing president generally loses seats in the mid-term elections, and the GOP currently controls the House of Representatives by only three votes.

Trump goes beyond Texas in his push to redo the card. He pushed Republican leaders into conservative states such as Indiana and Missouri to also try to create new republican seats. The Ohio Republicans already revised their card before the move of Texas.

Democrats, on the other hand, also think about the reopening of Maryland and New York cards.

However, more states led by democrats have commission systems such as California or other redistribution limits than the Republicans, leaving the GOP with a more free hand to quickly restart cards. New York, for example, cannot draw new cards before 2028, and even then, only with the approval of voters.

In Texas, there was not much that Democrats in numerical inferiority could do other than smoke and threaten a trial to block the card. Because the Supreme Court has blessed the purely partisan gerrymandering, the only way for opponents can stop the new Texas card by arguing that it violates the obligation of the law on voting rights to keep the minority communities together so that they can select representatives of their choice.