How Texas’ proposed map would affect the battle for the House: From the Politics Desk

Overall, there would not be a single district in which the presidential competition was decided by a single figure in Texas.

If it is promulgated, a republican gain of three seats of this plan seems almost automatic. But there would probably be suspense in southern Texas, where the two targeted Democrats – representatives Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez – each would have a chance to hang on.

Although this strongly Hispanic border region has historically been extremely democratic, Trump has made amazing incursions here in the last two elections. But locally, the Democrats still hold most of the offices and retain a powerful infrastructure. This is an open question if this support for Trump will manifest in terms of participation for republican candidates when the president himself is not on the ballot.

On paper, Cuellar has the best chance of surviving. He was re -elected 5 points last year even though Trump wore his 28th 7 -point district. Under the proposed lines of the GOP, Trump’s margin would check up to 10 points, a more difficult SLOG for Cuellar but that his performance in 2024 suggests that he can manage. Of course, Cuellar also faces another form of political danger in the form of accusations of federal corruption. If it is not in the mixture in 2026, its seat will become much more difficult to keep for Democrats.

As for Gonzalez, he retained his seat with approximately 3 points last year, while Trump won the 34th 4 -point district. This margin of Trump influenced 10 points with the new GOP card, making Gonzalez an Outsider – especially with the Republicans recruiting a strong challenger. But if the mid-term environment of next year is favorable to democrats, Gonzalez would certainly be competitive, in particular with the name of Trump absent from the ballot.

National, the Texas Republicans plan would increase the number of democrats representing districts that voted for Trump last year at 16. And with the Ohio Republicans ready to embark on their own redistribution effort, this number would probably increase to 18 or 19. These additional collection opportunities are crucial for the chances of the GOP to hold the room: a net loss of three seats would not be a control of the Democrats.

The last on the Redecipation of Texas Rediscup:

• The president of Texas House, Dustin Burrows, quickly accelerated the Chamber in session and out of its session, without the minimum number of state legislators to move on to regular affairs after dozens of democrats fled the state.
• Appearing alongside the Governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker and a group of Democrats from the Texas Chamber, the president of the National Democratic Committee, Ken Martin, said that his party “does not drive” to Trump and brought “a knife to a knife fight”.
• Pritzker said he would plan to call a special session to reopen the cards of the Illinois congress, where democrats already control 14 out of 17 seats.
• GOP senator John Cornyn urges the FBI to help the law enforcement organizations to find or stop the Democratic legislators who have left the state.
• Some Republicans representing competitive districts in the Blue States denounce the push of their party to redraw the lines of the Congress in Texas.

How Trump resumes government data

By Shannon Pettypice

The weather data collected by certain meteorological balls have been interrupted. HIV statistics in transgender people have been cleaned on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. And basic public figures, as the number of people work for the federal government, have been frozen or delayed for months.

Through the federal government, President Donald Trump has exerted his influence on the data used by researchers, economists and scientists, an effort that took place largely behind the scenes until Friday, when he pulled the head of the work statistics office.

The agency collects and publishes economic data, and Trump accused its former chef, Erika Mcentarfer, of providing false employment data last week showing a recent slowdown in the labor market.

“The figures were faked. Biden did not manage well, he was going badly,” said Trump in an interview on CNBC, referring to the job numbers.

Presidents of the two political parties often seek to run government data to their advantage, cherry selection figures that put their agendas in the best possible light. But MCentarfer’s dismissal has aroused criticism of economists, Wall Street investors and even Republicans who raise broader concerns about the continuous reliability of government data once considered the Order Stone.

“We have to look for objective statistics somewhere. When people who provide statistics are dismissed, it is much more difficult to make judgments which, you know, statistics will not be politicized,” said Senator Rand Paul, R-Ky., In an interview. “You can’t really make the figures different or better in dismissing people who make the count.”

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