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.
The guy is an over eager would be tyrant, and the rest of his party knows they’ll be the ones in firing range when people finally get sick of him. Slowly it starts to show that he’s lost the plot and needs to be ousted…
All the people who put him there still exist. They’ll find another.
They’ll never quench the thirst for their first.
Trump forgot that remaining popular until you’re properly dug in is in the authoritarian playbook. Because he’s a dumbass.
They would do it if they could. They’re only pushing back because they know a blue wave will decimate their control in every heavily gerrymandered state.
Overly optimistic. They’re trying to steal the election.
