Texas Gov. Abbott vows to approve GOP-leaning congressional voting map

Austin, Texas – Texas Governor Greg Abbott promised to quickly sign a new polling post of the Republican Congress to help the GOP maintain his thin majority at the Congress.

“A great card has adopted the Senate and is on the way to my office, where it will be signed quickly,” Abbott said in a statement.

The legislators of Texas approved the final plans a few hours earlier, igniting an already tense battle taking place among the States while the governors of the two parties undertake to redraw the cards in order to give their political candidates one step ahead during the mid-term elections of 2026.

In California, Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom has approved a special election that will take place in November so that residents voted on a redesigned congress map designed to help Democrats win five other chamber seats next year.

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has pushed other states controlled by the Republicans, including Indiana and Missouri, to also revise their cards to add more winning gop seats. The Ohio Republicans also had to revise their cards to make them more partisan.

In Texas, the map includes five new districts that would promote Republicans.

The effort of the legislature of Trump and the republican-Majjejurité Texas prompted the Democrats of the State to hold a two-week ranging and launched a wave of redistribution efforts across the country.

The Democrats had prepared for a last demonstration of resistance, with plans to push the Senate’s vote in the hours early in the morning in a last attempt to delay adoption. However, the Republicans blocked these efforts by citing a violation of the rules.

“What we have seen in this redistribution process was maneuvers and mechanisms to close the voices of people,” said state senator Carol Alvarado, head of the Senate Democratic Caucus, on social networks after the finalization of the new card by the Senate controlled by the GOP.

The Democrats had already delayed the adoption of the bill during the hours of debate, pressing the Republican senator Phil King, the sponsor of the measure, on the legality of the proposal, many alleging that the redesigned districts violate the law on voting rights by diluting the influence of voters based on the race.

King vehemently denied this accusation, saying: “I had two goals in mind: that all the cards would be legal and would be better for republican candidates in the Congress in Texas.”

“There is an extremely at risk that the republican majority will be lost” at home if the card does not pass, said King.

At the national level, the partisan composition of existing districts puts democrats in the three seats of a majority. The party of the outgoing president generally loses seats halfway up.

The Texas Redaw is already reshaping the 2026 race, with the Democratic representative Lloyd Doggett, the dean of the State Congress Delegation, announcing Thursday that he will not seek to re -elect at his headquarters based in Austin if the new card takes effect. According to the proposed map, the Doggett district rode that of another democratic holder, representative Greg Casar.

Rediscovery generally occurs once a decade, immediately after a census. While some states have their own limits, there is no national obstacle to a state trying to redraw districts in the middle of the decade.

In 2019, the United States Supreme Court judged that the Constitution does not prohibit the partisan gerrymandering to increase the influence of a party, only a gerrymandering which is explicitly made by the race.

States more led by democrats have commission systems such as California or other redistribution limits than those republican, leaving the GOP with a free hand to quickly redraw the cards. New York, for example, cannot draw new cards before 2028, and even while with the approval of voters.

The Republicans and certain Democrats defended a 2008 voting measure which established the Rediscussion Commission not partisan of California, as well as that of 2010 which extended its role to attract the cards of the Congress.

The two parties have shown concern about what the redistribution war could conduct.

The assembly of California James Gallagher, the chief of the Republican minority, said that Trump was “wrong” to put pressure for new republican seats elsewhere. But he warned that the approach of Newsom, that the governor nicknamed “Fight Fire With Fire”, is dangerous.

“You move forward while fighting fire with fire, and what’s going on?” Asked Gallagher. “You burn everything.”

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Cappelletti reported Washington and Golden de Seattle. The writer Associated Press, Kimberlee Kruesi, contributed to this Providence report, Rhode Island.