US President Donald Trump does not hide that the pursuit of a Texas election election is to help his Republican Party make profits in the congress in the average time in 2026.
Trump supports the move of Texas governor Greg Abbot and his Republican allies in the state legislative body to change the election card in a way that can turn to five places in the House of US Representatives from the Democrats next year.
“We have the opportunity to take five places in Texas,” Trump said on Tuesday in a phone interview with CNBC.
“We are entitled to five more places.”
To try to stop the impetus, the representatives of the Democrats state have left texasPreventing Republicans from voting in the legislature to make the new borders official.
At least 51 domestic Democrats have escaped Texas State to prevent the quorum and slow down a redistribution vote, which will give Republicans up to five additional places in the House of US Representatives.
They are confronted with fines, arrests and possible removal from tactics.
Here’s what you need to know:
Why does Texas redistribute meaning?
The borders of the US Congress regions can have a great influence on which party controls the House of Representatives.
Currently, Republicans have a subtle majority in the Chamber, but in a historical terms, the party at the president’s meeting almost always loses places in the intermediate elections.
If Democrats take control of the Chamber in 2026, not only Trump loses a clear path to his legislative and spending program, he could even face the prospect of impeachment.
The redirection of the Texas map to move a few blue seats to the red can help keep the house in republican hands.
Why do countries control district maps?
Unlike Canada – where non -party committees In every province, the federal riding borders once a decade – these are the high -ranking state legislative authorities that control the maps of the US Congress regions.
This has led to a long history of any country that is in power within the state to maximize the number of seats, a process known as Gerrymandering, term Established in 1812 in a dental reference to the then governor of Massachusetts.
A handful of countries in recent years appoint a redistribution work to independent committees.
How would the new texas borders change things?
In the 2024 election, Republicans won 25 household competitions in Texas, while the Democrats took the remaining 13.
The switch to change of the polls can – according to analysts looking at the latest voting models – change Five Of those held by the Democrats, the Republicans.
The proposed changes include to take solid blue parts of the adjacent areas held by Democrats in the urban regions of Houston, Dallas-Form Worth and Austin, and to combine them in such a way that the Democrats couples are confronted where Republicans have the advantage.
Meanwhile, in southern Texas, changes in the boundaries of two Democrats on the Mexican border can also target Republicans.
Why can Republicans be so screaming about it?
Although the US Constitution enables countries to control election limits, the US legal system has allowed countries to exercise this control in a roughly political way.
US Supreme Court managed in 2019 In case, including claims of both the Democrats and the Republican Guerrilla Germander, the issue is “political issues beyond the scope of the federal courts”.
This means that “it is absolutely permissible to draw cards based on the maximum guerrilla advantage,” said a State of Texas Brian Harrison, a Republican.
“All other Democrats countries do it. The State of Texas must also,” Harrison told CNN on Tuesday.
Why did the Democrat legislators leave the state?
Abbot, the governor, called a special session of the state legislative body at the end of July in order to make the new Border Act. To stop this to happen, the Democrats representatives in the Republican Texas dominated Kamash left the state so that there is no quorum, the minimum number of MPs needed for the business.
Most went to Illinois, others in New York, deliberately choosing countries governed by Democrats
Wait, what? Politicians can be arrested for not being shown to vote?
On Monday, the Chairman of the Chamber of Texas signed Varanti, allowing the Sergeant-Ramo to force the Democrat representatives to attend the legislative session. Abbot then ordered State troops arrest them.
Varants are applied only in state lines.
While every legislator faces a $ 500 fine for each day of absence, they are not forth with criminal charges. However, Abbott threatens bribery fees if legislators use donations to pay fines and some Republicans are looking for ways Democrats be remedied.
What is Trump’s view of Gerimander?
The president proposes two excuses why Republicans have a “entitled” in five more places in Texas. He claims that Republicans deserve more seats than Texas and that Democrats also have their countries.
“Democrats complain and complain about countries where they did it, like in Illinois, like in Massachusetts.,“Trump told reporters in Washington on Tuesday afternoon.” The Democrats did it long before we started. They have done it everywhere. “
Trump claims that Republicans should have a larger share of residential areas in Texas, given the results of the 2024 elections. And yet this is not done by mathematics. Trump took 56 percent of the Texas presidential vote, while the elections passed on Republicans 63 percent of their chamber seats.
Trump also claims twice on Tuesday that in 2024 he received the “highest vote in the history of Texas”. It’s just not true.
George W. W. Bush won a higher share of Texas (his home country) in both successful presidential campaigns (59 % in 2000 and 61 % in 2004), while Ronald Reagan won an even more large share of Texas in his winning in 1984 (nearly 64 percent).
Where does everything go from here?
California governor Gavin Newo warns that if Republicans in Texas follow with regard to his Gerimanje, he will strive to redirect the electoral areas of his country as a counter measure. There are similar noises from the blue states of New York, Illinois and Maryland.
If the Texas Republicans eventually get the new card confirmed, it may face a legal battle but up, considering that The Supreme Court Decision for 2019 allowing guerrilla Gerimander.
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2025-08-06 09:02:06