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redistricting battle ends in a wash — or with a [slight edge for Democrats](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/22/nx-s1-5787989/redistricting-map-trump-midterms-congress) for now. Basically, California Democrats were able to offset potential Republican gains in Texas, while Virginia neutralized
Texas general election matchups are finally set.** [Here are four takeaways](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/27/nx-s1-5835292/texas-senate-runoff-takeaways) from the state's primary runoffs. **South Carolina lawmakers yesterday** [**blocked Trump's effort**](https://www.npr.org/2026/05/26/nx-s1-5831996/redistricting-midterms-trump-south-carolina) **to alter voting maps
redistricting war upended an already polarized political environment, with states rushing to draw new districts to favor their parties. Trump has pushed for redrawn congressional maps in several Republican-led states to protect the party
effort to preserve Republican control of Congress for the entirety of his second term, sparking a tit-for-tat between red and blue states that will see its latest skirmish decided on Tuesday, when polls
Trump last year pushed Texas Republicans to rip up their electoral map and draw new district lines targeting five Democratic US House incumbents. After Texas did so, California Democrats reconfigured their state’s districts, targeting
redistricting, before the November’s critical midterm elections. Normally, states redraw their electoral maps once a decade to reflect the latest census results. But last year, the Trump administration called on the Texas legislature
efforts, the latest of which came to fruition in [Virginia](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/virginia) on Tuesday, when voters approved a plan that could remove all but one of the five [Republicans](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/republicans)
redistricting maps in an effort to gain greater partisan advantage and in the process to eliminate districts where Black voters had a fair chance of electing their candidate of choice. Leading the pack was Alabama
effort to counter the Republican redistricting wave set off by President Trump. The new map was drawn by Democrats and approved by Virginia voters in [an April referendum](https://www.elections.virginia.gov/media/electionadministration/electionlaw/4-21-2026-Special-Election-Explanation--Text.pdf).
Texas have since followed suit. The campaign was kicked into overdrive when the US Supreme Court ruled last week that a [provision](/news/2026/4/30/has-the-us-supreme-court-weakened-the-voting-rights-act-and-how) of the landmark 1973 Voting Rights Act, which prevented diluting the voting
Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump) launched before this year’s midterms. The vote came just two days after the governor, [Ron DeSantis](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ron-desantis), unveiled his proposal and the same day the US supreme court
redistricting election results: Key takeaways from Democrats’ win Virginia voters have narrowly approved a referendum to redraw the state’s congressional map, with about 51.5 percent voting yes and 48.6 percent voting
Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump) urging Republican-controlled states to redraw their lines and was supercharged by a recent supreme court ruling severely weakening the Voting Rights Act that opened up even more winnable seats
effort "unconstitutional gerrymandering," and some Democrats say it could end up benefiting their candidates in the end. But Evan Power, chair of the Republican Party of Florida, is an advocate for a new map. "When
Texas senator; and five of the seven [Indiana state senators](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/05/indiana-republicans-donald-trump) who defied his redistricting demands. In most of those races, Trump and his allies spent months orchestrating the successful primary challenges
effort failed. Trump-aligned dark money groups have spent upwards of $7m on TV ads in Indiana this year, according to a tally from AdImpact – the majority spent targeting [Republicans](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/republicans) who allied
Texas, but has built a groundswell of popularity through his message of peace and populism. Ahead of the primary, Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez, a former Democratic candidate for the Senate [and a partner at Ascend Strategy
effort a blow Tuesday when the state Senate voted against redistricting there after three weeks of rushed hearings and long debate. Trump had been pushing state Republicans [to redraw voting lines](https://www.southcarolinapublicradio.org/sc-news/2026-05-21/what-to-know-about-redistricting-in-south-carolina?_amp=true)
efforts across the U.S.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/1424x1424+442+0/resize/100/quality/85/format/png/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F94%2F97%2F3752f15b430bb360fa67f72ff57e%2Fpromo-redistricting-20260421.png)](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/22/nx-s1-5787989/redistricting-map-trump-midterms-congress) ### [Elections](https://www.npr.org/sections/elections/) ### [With Virginia vote, Democrats gain edge over Trump's national GOP redistricting push](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/22/nx-s1-5787989/redistricting-map-trump-midterms-congress) However, control of the House will depend
effort to subvert democracy, who paid the price when she lost her House seat in Wyoming in 2022. Similarly, it became a received wisdom that the Jeffrey Epstein files would be Trump’s undoing, that