State leaders have rapidly advanced partisan redistricting plans aimed at securing additional congressional seats for their parties. Texas pushed a mid-decade plan to add Republican seats, which President Trump praised as protecting rights, freedoms, and his political power through 2026, and suggested other GOP-led states may follow. California enacted a strongly Democratic map described by Gov. Gavin Newsom as defensive against an unpopular president and an expected Democratic congressional recovery. The escalation of overtly partisan mapmaking has prompted warnings about erosion of political fairness and growing concern for the future of American democracy.
In an evening social media post about a supremely partisan battle that could reshape American political power for generations, President Trump sounded ebullient. "Big WIN for the Great State of Texas!!! Everything Passed, on our way to FIVE more Congressional seats and saving your Rights, your Freedoms, and your Country, itself," Trump wrote, of the nation's most populous red state pushing a mid-decade redistricting plan designed to win more Republican seats in Congress and protect Trump's power through the 2026 midterms. "Texas never lets us down. Florida, Indiana, and others are looking to do the same thing," Trump wrote - nodding to a potential proliferation of such efforts across the country.
The next day, Gov. Gavin Newsom - projecting a fresh swagger as Trump's chief antagonist on the issue - stood with fellow lawmakers from the nation's most populous blue state to announce their own legislative success in putting to voters a redrawn congressional map for California that strongly favors Democrats. "We got here because the president of the United States is one of the most unpopular presidents in U.S. history," Newsom said, couching the California effort as defensive rather than offensive. "We got here because he recognizes that he will lose the election, [and that] Congress will go back into the hands of the Democratic Party next November."
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