President Donald Trump speaks in Miami on November 5, 2025. Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg/Getty Images

President Donald Trump marched the nation into a historic redistricting arms race with his brazen move to get red states to draw as many new GOP-leaning districts as possible.

Already, more states have voluntarily redrawn their congressional maps in the middle of a decade than had done so in the last half-century combined .

And it was an arms race the GOP was always likely to win , given the power dynamics involved.

But four months into the battle, the GOP’s gains are looking relatively muted. Indeed, it’s looking like Trump’s move could be much more damaging to democracy — by normalizing these kinds of bare-knuckle political tactics for years to come — than to the Democratic Pa

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