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The Texas House passed aggressively partisan redistricting maps intended to help the G.O.P. win 5 more U.S. House seats in the midterm elections. The State Senate is expected to vote on the maps on Thursday.
In complete control of the redistricting process, Republicans designed a map that will tighten their hold on diversifying parts of the state where the party’s grip on power was waning and lock in the GOP’s majority in the 38-seat delegation for the U.S. House.
The map also incorporates two additional House seats the state gained, the most of any state in this year’s reapportionment.
The map also incorporates two additional House seats the state gained, the most of any state in this year’s reapportionment.
Though Texas received those districts because of explosive population growth – 95 percent of it attributable to people of color – Republicans opted to give white voters effective control of both, which were drawn in the Houston and Austin areas.
The Senate approved the map on an 18-13 vote. The House followed with an 84-59 vote.
Republicans carved a new path for the party in CD-15, anchored in the Rio Grande Valley, by flipping it from a district that Biden narrowly won to one that Trump would’ve carried by 2.8 points. The "fajita" district stretches all the way from the Rio Grande to San Antonio diluting the Hispanic vote of the Rio Grande Valley across mostly white rural counties.
That shores up neighboring CD-34, which was unexpectedly close in 2020 but would have had a healthy Democratic margin of victory under the new map. The final version of the map draws CD-15 incumbent, U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-McAllen, into the reconfigured CD-34 where the incumbent is retiring.
The Senate approved the map on an 18-13 vote. The House followed with an 84-59 vote.
Republicans carved a new path for the party in CD-15, anchored in the Rio Grande Valley, by flipping it from a district that Biden narrowly won to one that Trump would’ve carried by 2.8 points. The "fajita" district stretches all the way from the Rio Grande to San Antonio diluting the Hispanic vote of the Rio Grande Valley across mostly white rural counties.
That shores up neighboring CD-34, which was unexpectedly close in 2020 but would have had a healthy Democratic margin of victory under the new map. The final version of the map draws CD-15 incumbent, U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-McAllen, into the reconfigured CD-34 where the incumbent is retiring.
6 comments:
Erin Gamez is a joke. Good speeches. Can't deliver. You lose, Mrs. Gamez.
Gerrymandering is one aspect of our voting system that needs to be eliminated. Another is the Electoral College. Term limits for representatives and Supreme Court justices. Anything short of that, creates an opportunity
for corruption. "We the people" has become a hollow slogan.
WHINE Mescans whine...bawhahahaha
If you run for president I will vote for you. Well stated!
Sir, this state of Texas belongs to us. From now on, no more tacos for me. No more Mexican food for me. Only American food. No more products from Mexico.
This is the demise of the Democratic experiment. No more one person, one vote. Now, it is win at all costs. Elections, like human rights, have become a joke.
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