"Redistricting Push Creates Chaos for Incumbents in Both Parties"

NYT:

When President Trump set out to force a gerrymander in Texas that would help Republicans keep control of the closely divided House, he argued it was a simple matter of fairness.

“We are entitled to five more seats,” the president said this month.

He got what he wanted from Texas, where the governor on Friday signed a redistricting plan. But the consequences may not be so simple.

With California Democrats immediately retaliating with their own re-engineering that could potentially swing up to five seats in the opposite direction, a redistricting arms race is quickly spreading across the country. That has become a major headache for incumbent members of Congress in both parties, who are concerned about changes to districts they have spent years — some of them decades — figuring out