Trump supports the Texas Gop plan to redraw the cards for 5 new Winner House seats

During the mid-term elections of 2026 fought for the control of the room, when the Republicans defend their thin majority like a razor, it seems that nothing is outside the limits.

The legislature of the state controlled by the GOP in Texas meets in a special session next week, while the main republicans of the red state are pushing to redraw the current Congress cards to reduce the number of districts controlled by already marginalized democrats.

This is part of a wider effort of the GOP across the country to keep control of the room and the losses of cushion elsewhere in the country, because the ruling party is traditionally confronted with political opposites and loses seats.

And President Donald Trump aims to prevent what happened during his first mandate, when the Democrats returned to seize the majority of the Chamber in the middle of 2018.

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President Donald Trump, with the press secretary of the White House, Karoline Leavitt, speaks to the media as he leaves the White House, Tuesday July 15, 2025. (AP photo / manual Balce Ceneta)

“Texas will be the biggest,” said the president to journalists earlier this week because he predicted the number of user -friendly siege of the GOP which could be added by redistribution in the Lone Star State. “Just a simple redrawn, we collect five seats.”

A few hours earlier, Trump had an appeal with the Republican Delegation of Texas and Sources confirmed to Fox News that the president declared to the legislators that he was aimed at redrawing the cards to create five new winning seats.

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The Democrats only control 12 of the 38 districts of the State Congress, with a vacant blue seat after the death of March of the representative Sylvester Turner.

The idea is to move the democratic voters of competitive seats in the nearby GOP districts and to move republican voters in the neighboring districts that Democrats are currently controlling.

The Republican Governor Greg Abbott of Texas called for a special session of the legislature dominated by his state to draw new cards from the congress. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)

Governor Greg Abbott and Lieutenant-Governor Dan Patrick, both conservative Republicans and Trump allies, said that they should redirect because of the constitutional concerns raised by the Ministry of Justice on a handful of districts dominated by minorities.

But this decision is potentially risky.

“There is a certain risk of making republican seats sure more competitive, and I think that holders are certainly worried about it,” said Fox News, a veteran republican strategist based in Texas, Brendan Steinhauser. “If you speak to the Republican members of the Congress, they will worry about their own seats. They do not want to be in a more competitive seat.”

Steinhauser noted “is the compromise for the Republicans, if you want to develop the majority”.

But he added that “people drawing the cards … They don’t want to make a seat too competitive because it will overcome the goal”.

Rediscussing generally takes place at the beginning of each decade, based on the latest data in the American census. Rediscussing at mid -December is rare – but not unprecedented.

The Democrats slam Trump and the Texas Republicans for what they describe as a takeover, and promising to take legal action to prevent any change in the current Congress maps.

Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas. The legislature of the state controlled by the GOP meets in special session next week, while the main Republicans are pushing to redraw the Congress cards. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)

“Democrats will grow aggressively because it is the right thing to do,” the head of the Hakeem Maison Hakeem Jeffries, DN.Y. told journalists this week.

Democrats in the States dominated by blue now envisage similar tactics.

“Two can play this game,” California Governor Gavin Newsom wrote on social networks this week.

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The next day, after a meeting, the Democrats of the California Congress Delegation said they were on board with an ambitious plan to try to win at least five seats per redistribution. Democrats currently control 43 of the 52 districts of the Golden State congress.

But it will not be easy to implement the change, because in California, the Congress cards are fired by an independent commission which is not supposed to leave the partisanary influencing their work.

California’s Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom is moving to redesign the Congress maps in his blue state, to pile up the push of President Donald Trump and the Texas Republicans to redistribution up to five Democrats in the House in power in Texas. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)

Newsom this week suggested that the legislature controlled by the democratic state advanced with a redesigning of the cards in mid-December, arguing that it could not be prohibited by the 17-year voting initiative which created the independent committee.

The governor also quickly proposed a special election to repeal the commission before the mid-term elections of 2026.

The two plans are considered to be long shots, because they would be confronted with many legislative, legal and financial obstacles.

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Democrats also hope to modify the Congress cards in the Wisconsin of the battlefield, but the new liberal majority of the Supreme Court of the State recently refused to hear the case. Democrats and their allies are now in the midst of a second legal push for redistribution in Wisconsin.

Democrats have also made redistribution disputes in Utah and Florida, which are both red states.

Meanwhile, Ohio is obliged by the law to redirect this year, and a restart of the cards in the state with red sensations could provide GOP up to three other seats in the congress.