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Trump’s gerrymandering push flops as Democrats win redrawn seats
Democrats blunted GOP mapmaking in several states, winning or holding key seats and leaving Republicans far short of the seats they sought, officials said.
- 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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2026 midterms bring a wave of changes – The Volante
Last week the national midterms were held and brought with them several notable changes in the U.S. In the Senate, 35 seats were up for election, 22 of those seats were previously held by a Republican senator while the remaining 13 seats were held by Democratic senators. The Democratic Party held on to its 13 seats and gained 7 of the Republican seats, whereas the Republican Party held on to 13 of its seats and did not flip any Democratic s…
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