Republicans in the Texas House were poised on Wednesday to approve an aggressively partisan redistricting plan, overcoming Democratic protests and delivering to President Trump the congressional map he called for.
The redrawing of Texas’s maps, designed for Republicans to pick up five U.S. House seats, is likely only the first redistricting battle in what could be a bruising and protracted coast-to-coast clash over the coming months between states led by Republicans and those led Democrats.
The outcome could effectively determine control of the U.S. House of Representatives, where Republicans hold onto a slim majority, before a single vote is cast in the 2026 midterms elections.
Already, Mr. Trump and his allies have been looking beyond Texas to other Republican states, including Indiana, Missouri and Ohio, with redistricting in mind. Democratic state leaders in Illinois, New York and California have vowed to embark on their own mid-decade redistricting efforts if Texas succeeded in redrawing its districts.
This week, Gov. Gavin Newsom and Democratic lawmakers in California have been pushing forward a measure to redo the state’s congressional map with the goal of flipping five Republican seats there.
But the California effort, which the legislature is expected to approve on Thursday, has proved far more difficult than the one in Texas. It involves working around state rules that require an independent commission to handle redistricting. And the proposed measure would have to be approved by voters in a special election in November.
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