Texas and California redistribution battles resume before the mid-term elections

The battle with high issues between the Republicans and the Democrats on the redistribution of the congress before the mid-term elections next year resumed in California and Texas on Monday, the Democrats of Texas ending their deadlines, paving the way for the Republicans to pass their new Congress card.

In Austin, Texas, state legislators met for a second consecutive special session called by the conservative republican governor Greg Abbott.

At the top of their task list, it passes a redistribution card designed by the GOP which would create up to five districts of the Republican Congress to the detriment of the seats currently controlled by the Democrats.

The republican thrust in Texas, which arrives at the request of President Donald Trump, is part of a wider effort of the GOP across the country to fill their majority of the thin house like the razor to keep control of the mid-term chamber of 2026, when the power party traditionally faces the needles of the political plate and to seats.

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The Texas House House Dustin Burrows Gavels Sine Die speaker, ending the special session after failing to reach a quorum on August 15, 2025, in Austin. (AP photo / Rodolfo Gonzalez)

Trump and his political team aim to prevent what happened during his first mandate in the White House, when the Democrats returned to seize the majority of the Chamber in the 2018 mid-term elections.

The republicans of the Red State of Texas enjoy a supermajority in the Legislative Assembly and the State Senate adopted the new cards of the Congress.

Dozens of Democrats in Texas had fled the state to prevent a quorum in the Texas legislature, effectively preventing Abbott and the Republicans from advancing with new cards.

But the Democratic leaders announced on Monday that they would return for the second special session after the plan of California to redraw its cards to soften the stroke of the solo star state, the Associated Press reported.

“Let me be also clear on where we are going from here, we have finished waiting and we have the quorum, it’s the moment of action,” said Texas Chamber Dustin Burrows.

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The fleeing democrats, which created a camp in the Bleus States of Illinois, New York and Massachusetts, at the end of last week, pointed out that they would return to Texas after the adjournment of the first special session, and after the Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom and other Democrats of California, revealed at mid-term of the push of the push and the Republicans.

The end of the democrats by the Democrats will lead to the passage of new cards, but the Democrats of Texas swear that they will fight the new state cards in court and say that the movements of California allow them to pass “the stick”.

The representative of the democratic state Gene Wu, the best democrat in the House of Representatives of Texas, and other legislators of the State who fled Texas should return this week to the Solitaire Star State. (Jay Janner / Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images)

“Now, while the Democrats across the country join our fight to make these cards fail their political objective, we are ready to bring this battle to Texas in the right conditions and to bring this fight before the courts,” the Democratic chief of the Texas State, Gene Wu said on Thursday.

Abbott, who presents himself next year for a four -year -old fourth quarter, the management of Texas, is committed to “continue to call a special session after the special session until this first Texas program has passed”.

And the governor, in a Friday declaration, accused that “the democrats of the delinquent chamber have moved away from their responsibility to adopt crucial legislation for the benefit of the life of the Texans”.

Friday, the president of Texas House, Dustin Burrow, promised that the ongoing democrats who tried to go home during the weekend would not have a “peaceful weekend” and would be rather arrested and “obliged to this room”.

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Burrows also declared on Friday at the start of the second special session which he expected to reach a quorum on Monday, with the likely return of the ongoing democrats.

Abbott and the Attorney General of the Ken Paxton State pushed to withdraw from their functions some of the legislators of the Democratic State who fled, and all the legislators who have left and left the state fines up to $ 500 per day for their absence.

While the republican push in Texas to upset the current cards of the congress does not face the constitutional constraints, the Newsom path in California is much more complicated.

California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom speaks during a congress redistribution event on August 14, 2025 in Los Angeles. (AP photo / Rich Pedroncelli)

The governor is moving to organize a special election this year, to obtain the approval of the voters to cancel the constitutional amendments that created the non -partisan redistribution committee. A two -thirds majority vote in the Californian legislature dominated by the Democrats would be necessary to hold the referendum.

The legislature is back in session in Sacramento on Monday, and the Democrats of the two chambers should approve the cards – which would create up to five other districts of the left congress to the detriment of the Republican minority – at the end of this week.

The leaders of the Democratic Party are convinced that they will have the votes to advance the constitutional amendment and the new cards proposed to the Congress through the Legislative Assembly. The proposal was submitted to the State’s legislature by the campaign committee of the Democrat Congress (DCCC), which is the re -election branch of the Democrats in the Chamber.

“Here, we are open and simple before a vote is expressed in the mid-term elections of 2026 and here (Trump) tries once again to fake the system,” Newsom accused Thursday.

The appearance of last week by Newsom, which is considered a probable competitor for the democratic presidential appointment of 2028, also served as a start -up of fundraising to increase the massive quantities of the campaign necessary to sell the redistribution of state thrust in California.

The non -partisan redistribution commission, created over 15 years ago, remains popular with most Californians, according to the survey of public opinion.

This is why Newsom and the Democratic legislators of California promise not to completely remove the commission, but rather temporarily replacing it by the Legislative Assembly for the next three electoral cycles.

But the former president of the republican chamber, Kevin McCarthy, who represented a district of the Congress in the California central valley for 17 years, argued in an appearance in “Sunday Morning Futures” of Fox News that “when you think of the way in which they have drawn these lines, there was no audition. There is no debate. California has no traction.

McCarthy, which helps direct the GOP fund collection effort to counter the Democrats of Newsom and California leading to the probable referendum this fall, said that “November 4 will be the election that people could really have a say”, as he underlined the polls showing strong support for the current non -supporter redistrict commission.

The pressure to temporarily replace the Commission is also opposed by other high -level Republicans. Among the most visible, there is the former governor. Arnold Schwarzenegger, The latest Republican elected Governor in California dominated by Democrats.

The longtime star of the Hollywood action says that he is mobilizing to oppose the push of Newsom to temporarily eliminate the non -partisan redistigation commission.

“I am preparing for the battle of the Gerrymandering,” wrote Schwarzenegger in an article on social networks on Friday, which included a photo of the former professional bodybuilding champion of the bodysuits lifting weights.

Schwarzenegger, who has become world famous as a star of the film “The Terminator” four decades, wore a t-shirt in the photo That said “finish Gerrymandering”.

Schwarzenegger’s spokesman Daniel Ketchell, told Politico earlier this month that “he calls the evil of Gerrymandering, and he means it. He thinks it is really bad for politicians to take the power of people”.

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“It is opposed to what Texas does, and it is opposed to the idea that California would go down to do the same thing,” added Ketchell.

Schwarzenegger, during his governor mandate, played a main role in the adoption of constitutional amendments in California in 2008 and 2010 which took power to draw the legislative districts and the Congress of the States of politicians and placed it in the hands of an independent commission.