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White House pressure campaign has not found willing participants in all states – including Republican-led ones

The unprecedented push to create new congressional districts mid-decade is hitting roadblocks in the form of local elected officials from both parties.

Republicans face headwinds in the 2026 midterms: the party in power often loses ground in the election after a presidential win, and Trump’s agenda isn’t going over well. The 2025 off-year elections showed voters favoring Democrats at higher-than-expected margins. Trump wants to keep the House in Republican control by redrawing congressional maps to create more Republican-friendly districts. He first pressured Texas, which responded by drawing five additional red districts, which led California to advance a now-approved ballot measure to create five more Democrat-friendly districts to offset Texas’s maps.

But the White House pressure campaigns haven’t found willing participants in all GOP-held statehouses, or from the courts. Texas’s maps were blocked by a federal court, and the US supreme court will review that decision, which could deal a blow to the whole gambit. Voters in Missouri are trying to stop their state’s gerrymander via a referendum.

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[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Trump forgot that remaining popular until you're properly dug in is in the authoritarian playbook. Because he's a dumbass.