How redistricting became the burning hot center of Democratic politics

It was once a problem that made voter eyes froze.

But in recent weeks, the former arcain of redistribution – supported by the extraordinary exodus of the Democrats of Texas by their State to block the republican plans to redraw the cards – has turned into the burning center of democratic politics.

The potential candidates of the White House 2028 sought to put themselves at the center of the fight against what they call a capture of power of the GOP in Texas. The same goes for democratic governors, members of the congress and candidates for functions across the country.

Far from the days of old for a party made fun for sending “strongly written letters” while the Republicans have sprayed them, the Democrats now draw their own flame throwers.

This is precisely what rank wants to see from a party they are fed up and disappointed, say the Democrats.

“There are not many moments when politics passes to normal people. This is going through … because of the way ruthless people sees the Republicans, and they want to see their Democratic leaders fight just as hard,” said Josh Marcus-Blank, a Democratic consultant who worked on senatorial and presidential campaigns. “Any [Democratic] The voters thinking of 2028 are crazy at the moment, and they really want the Democrats to get up and fight. »»

President Donald Trump raised the question of the national scene when he said that he wanted Texas to be able to carve his congress card to create up to five other republican districts to protect the party’s narrow majority in the middle of 2026.

While the two parties gerrymate the districts of the congress of their states in the past, the move to Texas stands out because it seeks to scam the map of the State in mid-December, rather than after the new census every 10 years. The Democrats left the state to refuse a quorum to the Texas Chamber and prevent the GOP plan from moving forward. This decision can ultimately only delay the action because Governor Greg Abbott promised to call special sessions several times until he can go through the new card.

But while Abbott advanced, the heavy strikers of the left moved to enter the action.

The Democrats have already burst from his state to the handle, but the governor of Illinois JB Pritzker, a potential presidential candidate in 2028, used another way under the spotlight. In June, he discreetly discussed a means for the Democrats of Texas to take refuge in his state on the eve of a special legislative session.

California Governor Gavin Newsom threatened to restart the cards from the Congress of his State if the Republicans progressed with their plans in Texas. Newsom, however, is expected to bypass an independent commission which controls the redistribution process in California.

“They want to change the game,” said Newsom about Republicans. “We can act more holy than you. We could sit on the sidelines, talk about how the world should be, or we can recognize the existential nature that is this moment. ”

In another climbing on the issue, Newsom said on Tuesday evening that Trump had missed a deadline and that California would therefore be “historic” and “ending Trump’s presidency,” he said in a social networks that ironically came the type of statement Trump would make.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul, declaring: “We are at war,” said that she would seek means to counter Texas plans. Any new card in his state would only take effect after next year.

Former transport secretary Pete Buttigieg, a possible presidential competitor, organized a live forum on social networks and published a video on the problem.

“What it shows is that the Republicans believe that they will lose the congress unless they change the cards before the next elections,” said Buttigieg.

After the Texas Republicans first planned to redesign the map at mid-December, the governor of Colorado Jared Polis, the governor of Maryland Wes Moore and the Governor of Hawaii, Josh Green, became a role in the question of the touch of the meeting of the National Governors Association in Colorado at the end of July.

“My party cannot stay next to it and watch it occur and have the Congress of the will of the people remove, anything. It is quite contrary to ethics for Texas to do so – to redirect. It is an obvious attempt to steal elections,” said Green in an interview. “If the courts will not stop it, then you will have to fight fire with fire.”

In Illinois, where a competitive race is underway to replace the retirement of the longtime senator Dick Durbin, the main candidates appeared alongside the Democrats of Texas during new events. One day, representatives Robin Kelly and Raja Krishnamoorthhi promised to build a wall against Trump’s efforts, and the next, it was Lieutenant-Governor Juliana Stratton.

“Now it’s time to get up and fight. President Trump and Governor Abbott, we look at you.” If Trump and the Texas Republicans will not respect the rules, we will examine all the options available to stop their seizure of extreme power, and nothing will be outside the table. ”

Andrew O’Neill, the national advocacy director of the indivisible progressive basic group, qualified some of the remarks and actions of the democrats of “productive ambition”.

“Democratic leadership among democratic voters – it is in the toilet at the moment. The democratic base is furious with the state of their party,” said O’Neill.

He added that all the Democrats hoping to attract attention to the national scene must show the base that they know how to remove the gloves.

“If you adopt the kind of quiet adult in the room,” we are just going to be responsible, “nobody pays attention to you and no one hears your message,” said O’Neill. “So, everything is fine that you have published a boring press release that says that you believe in democracy and equitable cards, but if you do not really fight the Republicans and by drawing this strategic conflict, in the attention of the attention to which we are currently living in.”

The reception of the Democratic legislators of Texas in Illinois gave Pritzker a platform to play the Chief Protector, promising to obstruct the officials of Trump and Texas who authorized civil arrest mandates.

“There is no federal law that would allow the FBI to stop anyone who visits our condition here,” said Pritzker on “Meet the Press” of NBC News on Sunday. “So it’s a lot of greatness. This is what it is.”

Meanwhile, Newsom and representative Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., The former president of the Chamber, was held on Friday half a dozen Texas legislators in Sacramento, where Newsom declared that California “would cancel” the Map of the Republicans of Texas if they advanced.

There are signs that the actions of the Democrats are gaining ground. For example, a new Siena College survey revealed that Hochul’s job approval and the favorability ratings have checked since June when it was at the center of the redistribution debate.

The representative of the State of Texas, Ramon Romero Jr., who directs the Hispanic Democratic Caucus and is one of those of Illinois sitting in the special session, said that he had been embraced by the response of the public.

“People have contacted me that I have never heard of,” he said.

Romero relayed the comments that his brother, a teacher, received.

“Every day,” he said: “Dude, you know, everyone comes to me, telling me how proud they are and for the fact that they did not even know what redistribution was and now they know”, “said Romero.

He continued: “If we had just returned, no one would have been careful. But they know it now.”