GOP plan in Utah backfires
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Oopsies.
A Utah judge on Monday rejected a new congressional map drawn by Republican lawmakers, adopting an alternate proposal creating a Democrat-leaning district ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
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Oopsies.
A Utah judge on Monday rejected a new congressional map drawn by Republican lawmakers, adopting an alternate proposal creating a Democrat-leaning district ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
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Then there is Indiana.
The Republican leader of the Indiana Senate said the chamber would not meet to redraw the state's congressional map, rejecting pressure from President Donald Trump and the state's governor.
“Today I’m announcing there are not enough votes to move that idea forward, and the Senate will not reconvene in December,” Indiana Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray said in a statement.
The White House has repeatedly pushed Indiana, where Republicans control seven of nine congressional seats, to join the national mid-decade redistricting push to shore up the party's narrow House majority in next year's midterm elections. Vice President JD Vance visited the state twice to press lawmakers, while Trump called legislators recently.
Indiana Republican Gov. Mike Braun called a special legislative session last month to try to force the issue. State lawmakers had initially said that to save money, they wouldn’t meet until a regularly scheduled session in December, before pulling the plug on it Friday afternoon.
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Im wondering if, to the extend the Latino swing to Ds this year endures, if Texas might get bitten in the ass by their new gerrymander. That would be glorious.
@jon-nyc said in GOP plan in Utah backfires:
Im wondering if, to the extend the Latino swing to Ds this year endures, if Texas might get bitten in the ass by their new gerrymander. That would be glorious.
I have seen speculation to that effect. In order to increase the number of red-leaning districts in Texas the GOP has had to split off some voters from red districts, making them only pink, in order to turn existing blue-leaning districts pink as well. In a wave election the GOP could lose both of 'em.
