Trump’s gerrymandering push flops as Democrats win redrawn seats
Republicans redrew five Texas districts to gain House seats, but Democrats won four and the fifth remained uncalled, AP race calls showed.
- Texas Republicans' 2025 effort to redraw congressional maps backfired during Tuesday's midterms, with the party on course to win only one of the five districts it targeted for a flip.
- Urged by President Donald Trump, the GOP-controlled Texas Legislature redrew boundaries last year, banking on 2024 Latino voter gains to preserve the party's slim House majority.
- "The polling was pretty clear from a year ago that many Latinos regretted voting for Donald Trump," University of Houston professor Brandon Rottinghaus said, explaining how voters swung back to Democrats.
- Democrats secured key victories, including Leticia Gutierrez in the 9th District and Katy Padilla Stout in the 23rd, while incumbents Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez retained their South Texas seats.
- This failed Texas effort sparked a broader, nationwide redistricting war, with similar map-drawing attempts in Florida also failing to prevent a Democratic surge that handed the party control of the U.S. House.
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