California’s Democratic supermajority quickly pushed through a redistricting measure that favors their party. Voters will consider it in November.
The effort was in response to Texas Republicans adopting a redistricting plan favoring their party, which they took up at Trump’s behest.
In an evening social media post about a supremely partisan battle that could reshape American political power for generations, President Trump sounded ebullient.
“Big WIN for the Great State of Texas!!! Everything Passed, on our way to FIVE more Congressional seats and saving your Rights, your Freedoms, and your Country, itself,” Trump wrote, of the nation’s most populous red state pushing a mid-decade redistricting plan designed to win more Republican seats in Congress and protect Trump’s power through the