It appears Republicans are getting too big for their britches in the Donald Trump-led effort to rig the 2026 midterm elections by redrawing congressional districts to benefit the GOP—hubris that may backfire a bit.
On Monday, Utah's Republican-controlled legislature passed a new congressional map that actually opens the party up to losing two seats in the state's four-member U.S. House delegation.
Utah passed the new map under orders from a state judge, who ruled in August that the current Republican congressional gerrymander violated a law that required the state to use a nonpartisan commission when drawing districts.
But rather than make one of the state's four seats blue by centering it around Democratic-heavy Salt Lake City, as proposed by an independent redistricting commission, Re