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

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