Trump tells Texas Republicans to redraw the state congressional map to help keep House majority
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Texas Republicans forced the state to re -draw the congress maps to create more house chairs suitable for the party, which is part of a wider effort to help GOP to keep the Chamber control next year. midterm exams.
The directive of the president points to a portion of the strategy that Trump should take to prevent the recurrence. first periodWhen the Democrats turned the house to the presidency for two years. The GOP -controlled Texas Legislative Assembly comes shortly before planning to start a special session next week, and during this time he will consider the new congress maps to marginalize the democrats in the state.
For Pittsburgh, the White House allocated about the possibility of adding GOP -friendly zones throughout the country, Trump replied, “Texas will be the largest. And this will be five.”
In the early hours of Tuesday, Trump made a call with members of the Republican Congress delegation of Texas and told them that the state legislature would follow five new winning seats RedistriblyAccording to a familiar person who is not authorized to argue. The call was first reported by Punchbowl News.
After the 2020 census, the congress maps were expected to remain in place by the end of a decade. If Texas redefined them by Trump’s order, this can lead to other states, including those controlled by the Democrats. In response to the Texas plan, California Gov. Gavin Newsom He wrote on social media: “He can play this game.”
Nevertheless, the hands of the Democrats can at least partially bound. Many of the party controls have state legislative and congress maps prepared by independent commissions that should not support both sides. This is the case in California that Voters have no role in the red -distribution game after confirming the commission system with the 2008 voting compass measure.
Reduction is a constitutional process to rebuild political regions after a decade to ensure that they have an equal population. However, there is no prohibition against revitalizing the maps between the census census, and sometimes court decisions have made it compulsory. However, the volunteer re -distribution wave, where Trump is encouraging, is unusual.
Home democratic leader HAKEEM JEFFRES On Tuesday, he does not comment on whether non -partisan systems such as California will go back, but instead Trump’s push “Free and fair elections weaken”.
At a press conference, Jeffries said at a press conference, “Public officials should win the votes of people they hoped to represent. It is to ensure that the Republicans are trying to do in Texas to choose their voters.”
Democratic representative. Lloyd doggettHe also criticized Texas Republicans for focusing on redistributing after the fourth July, including a part of Austin. Holiday floods He killed at least 132 people and still still missing.
Doggett said, “There is no doubt that there were failures at all levels of the government. The district, Texas province, the federal government. To do something to correct these failures of the special session,” he said. “Rediction, this plan is an act of helplessness.”
The special Texas legislative session, which is planned to start on Monday, is aimed to focus after fatal floods.
Cumhuriyet Gov. Greg Abbott “The US Department of Justice plans to receive a revised Congress in the light of constitutional concerns brought to the agenda by the US Department of Justice.
The Republicans in Ohio are preparing to redraw their maps years later. Political and Court Wars on the re -distribution process of the state. The GOP-controlled legislature is considering expanding the party’s leadership in the congress committee up to 13-2. It currently has 10-5 advantages.
Nevertheless, there are practical limits as to how many new seats can be squeezed from a map. Therefore, some Texas Republicans hesitates another redrawing. In 2011, the party’s legislators drew an aggressive map to expand their majority, but to find the seats they thought were washed safely in 2018 democratic wave elections in the first period of Trump.
In response, Map in 2021 He was more carefully, and maintained the majority of the GOP’s congress delegation. There are 25 Republican Assembly members compared to a democratic void planned to be filled with 12 democratic and special elections from the state.
The effort to expand the number of GOP seats will mean the redistribution of democratic -prone voters from these blue regions to republican regions. This may have previously transferred the secure GOP regions to the democratic column, and the Democratic Congress Campaign Committee President Suze Delbene foresees at a press conference on Tuesday.
“The new map drawn by the Texas Republicans will inevitably create more competitive regions,” he said. “To publish maps, this schema will not support the majority. The majority race will expand the battlefield.”
Republican Texas Year John Cornyn, the medium -loop redistribution began to rise and said that Latin voters in Texas turned to Republicans in the last elections. He said that the map will “mean important gains for the Republicans of Texas” this year.
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Associated Press Congress Reporter Lisa Mascaro Washington and Ohio, columbus writer Julie Carr Smyth contributed to this report.
