US EditionPresident Trump Was a Big Factor in California’s Redistricting War. What About the Governor’s Race?
Courts and state officials block Republican-led redistricting, with Democrats poised to gain up to nine House seats amid ongoing legal disputes and tight deadlines.
- Last week, President Donald Trump’s mid-decade redistricting push faltered as a federal court struck down Texas’s map, jeopardising Republican gains and boosting Democrats' hopes for around five seats in the 2026 midterm elections.
- Breaking with tradition, Republican leaders sought mid-decade changes as Trump urged conservative state legislatures to redraw maps early to expand a thin U.S. House majority.
- On Nov 21, the US Supreme Court allowed Texas to restore its disputed map while justices review the case, with Florida’s legislature meeting Dec 4 and filing deadlines starting Dec 8 before March primaries.
- With control of the US House at stake, Republicans hold a narrow 219-213 majority, and analysts say Democrats could be up by nine seats if rulings favor them, while voters in New York have sued to change a Staten Island district.
- The high court is weighing a major Voting Rights Act challenge from Louisiana that could shrink Black and Latino majority districts and potentially give Republicans a dozen seats.
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President Trump was a big factor in California’s redistricting war. What about the governor’s race?
When it came down to it, California’s Proposition 50 redistricting was chalked up to a pre-midterm elections referendum on President Donald Trump and his policies. But that election is over now. Attention has swung to another one that has been percolating in the background: the race for California’s next governor. That Proposition 50 playbook — for Democrats, it was invoking Trump; for Republicans, it was avoiding the president — could serve as …
President Trump was a big factor in California’s redistricting war. What about the governor’s race?
When it came down to it, California’s Proposition 50 redistricting was chalked up to a pre-midterm elections referendum on President Donald Trump and his policies. But that election is over now. Attention has swung to another one that has been percolating in the background: the race for California’s next governor. That Proposition 50 playbook — for Democrats, it was invoking Trump; for Republicans, it was avoiding the president — could serve as …
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