Texas adopts a redistricting map at Donald Trump's request, which favors Republicans
This new electoral map should allow Republicans to gain up to five additional seats in the United States Congress in Washington during the 2026 legislative elections.
The Texas legislature definitively adopted a new electoral map on Friday that should allow Republicans to gain up to five additional seats in the United States Congress in Washington in the 2026 legislative elections. US President Donald Trump had publicly pressured Republican officials in this southern state to carry out this redistricting aimed at preserving his current narrow majority in the federal Congress.
Republican Governor Greg Abbott must now sign the new map into law. "We're on our way to five more seats in Congress and saving your rights, your freedoms, and your country," Trump said Wednesday on his Truth Social platform, adding, "Texas never lets us down." The Texas electoral map will be changed to dilute the Democratic vote, a gerrymandering technique.
Skip the adDemocratic lawmakers, who are in the minority in the Texas legislature, tried as best they could to oppose it. They fled the state in early August, taking refuge in Chicago or New York, so that a quorum would not be reached. Their departure prevented Republicans from organizing a vote on the bill for more than two weeks.
The Democratic group in the Texas House of Representatives has notably denounced the Republicans' desire to "silence minority voters through racist gerrymandering" , believing that the new electoral map dilutes the votes of African-American and Hispanic electorates, the majority of whom traditionally vote Democratic.
Of Texas's 38 congressmen in Washington, 25 are currently Republicans. The White House hopes to have 30 Republicans next year. Faced with this Texas initiative, California, governed by Democrat Gavin Newsom, has begun efforts to retaliate and redraw its own map in favor of the Democrats.
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