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efforts backfire. The tit-for-tat redistricting battle began last year after Trump pressed Texas
redistricting efforts as of early December 2025](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/1258x1258+264+0/resize/100/quality/85/format/png/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F00%2F62%2F676a65c6478caa60a239dabb3bba%2Fpromo-redistricting-20250911.png)](https://www.npr.org/2025/12/08/nx-s1-5634585/redistricting-2026midterm-election-trump-congress) ### [Politics](https://www.npr.org/sections/politics/) ### [After Texas ruling, Trump
effort to use mid-decade redistricting to preserve his control of Congress. The tit-for-tat redistricting battle began last year after Trump pressed Texas
effort to redraw the state's congressional map](https://www.npr.org/2026/04/21/nx-s1-5793878/virginia-redistricting-results-trump) This race was a win for Democrats in an ongoing redistricting battle started by Trump last year when he asked Texas
effort, known as Proposition 50, was overwhelmingly approved by voters in November. Trump set off a wave of new mid-decade redistricting after urging Texas
Trump called on Republicans in Texas last year to redraw their maps to create more Republican-leaning districts. That kicked off a flurry of tit-for-tat redistricting efforts
redistricting vote is part of a larger political battle playing out in the US. Republicans in [Texas](/news/2025/8/21/whats-the-texas-redistricting-fight-about-and-how-has-california-reacted), encouraged by Donald Trump, have redrawn district maps to strengthen their advantage, prompting similar efforts
redistricting fight set in motion by Trump last year. With primary elections already underway, this is one of Democrats’ last shots at offsetting or even overcoming the gains Republicans made in Texas and elsewhere before
Trump and Republicans initiated a national gerrymandering push aiming to help conservatives maintain a congressional majority. Democrats in California last year approved a similar measure to change the state's voting districts, with the goal
redistricting effort in his state, as soon as next week. “You’d be hard pressed to find a single Republican tonight who doesn’t think the GOP should’ve done more in Virginia. It actually
Trump's national effort to redraw congressional voting maps in favor of the GOP. Loading... Voters narrowly approved a Democratic-backed constitutional amendment to sideline the state's redistricting commission and let lawmakers directly implement
redistricting battle began last year after Trump pressed Texas’s Republican-controlled legislature to [redraw that state’s congressional maps](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/02/us-redistrcting-congressional-map) in a bid to oust as many as five Democratic House lawmakers
effort would result in three additional competitive districts but no net gain for Republicans. House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York threatened a wider front in Florida if they enacted redistricting legislation. “If Florida
Trump, who largely stayed on the sidelines of the battle, joined an eleventh-hour tele-rally on Monday to urge voters to reject the redistricting ballot measure. “This is really a country election. The whole
efforts at gerrymandering, which means creating districts to favor one party over another, tend to be common but unpopular. [](https://www.npr.org/2026/03/11/nx-s1-5744864/the-next-redistricting-battle-might-be-who-is-counted-in-state-legislative-districts)
Texas’s newly redrawn 18th congressional district.** Green, 78, had served 11 terms as a Democrat, earning a reputation as one of Donald Trump’s top critics, when he became the first member of Congress
redistricting battle. Since Trump encouraged Texas to redraw its US House districts last year, eight states have adopted new congressional districts. From that, Republicans think they could gain as many as 13 seats while Democrats
Trump’s effort to have red states use gerrymandering to preserve the GOP’s majority in the House ahead of the November midterm elections, in which the party in power historically loses seats. “The president
Trump that looks increasingly to be moving back in Republicans’ favor. The supreme court on Monday [sided with Republicans](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/27/supreme-court-texas-redistricting-case) in Texas by reinstating a redrawn electoral map that could flip
Texas. Republicans currently hold slim majorities in both chambers of Congress. Ceding control of either the House or Senate to the [Democrats](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/democrats) in the upcoming elections would endanger Trump’s legislative agenda