{"id":105221,"date":"2025-07-30T16:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/105221\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T16:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:16:13","slug":"texas-republicans-propose-new-u-s-house-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/105221\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Republicans propose new U.S. House map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/redistricting-republicans-democrats-map-fight-trump-midterms-10cc6f0b2f4d98b22693a681f299200c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Republicans<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday unveiled a new congressional map that creates five additional GOP-leaning districts, bolstering their chances of maintaining control as they brace for a challenging midterm election.<\/p>\n<p>The redrawn map comes during\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/texas-redistricting-congressional-maps-af5378c325d70518b521af7dae13c204\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a special legislative session<\/a>\u00a0called by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, as President Donald Trump urges Texas Republicans to reshape districts in the party\u2019s favor.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans hope the new Texas map will strengthen their chances of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/texas-trump-redistricting-census-california-republicans-constitutional-1c6287fc23214548be734bbbf7056117\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">holding the U.S. House in 2026<\/a>, and Trump officials have signaled their efforts may expand beyond the state, with similar pushes now underway in Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans in Texas currently hold 25 of the state\u2019s 38 seats, and the new map ups the total they could win to 30. All of those new 30 seats were won by Trump in November by at least 10 percentage points, leading to conservative optimism they can hold them even in what\u2019s likely to be a tough midterm environment for the party.<\/p>\n<p>The new seats come from making two Rio Grande Valley seats that have been narrowly won by Democrats recently slightly more Republican, collapsing two seats held by Democrats Lloyd Doggett and Greg Casar in the Austin and San Antonio area into a single liberal district and turning two Democratic-held seats in the Dallas-Fort Worth area into GOP-majority ones.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Greg Casar, one of the Democrats who could face a more difficult reelection under the new map, called the proposed changes \u201cillegal voter suppression,\u201d pointing to the merging of his district with another Democratic-held seat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone who cares about our democracy must mobilize against this illegal map,\u201d Casar said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>A public hearing on the matter will take place on Friday, Aug. 1, at 10 a.m. Those who cannot attend can submit their testimony <a href=\"https:\/\/comments.house.texas.gov\/home?c=c055\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">online<\/a>. Those who plan to attend in person must <a href=\"https:\/\/house.texas.gov\/committees\/witness-registration\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">register at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \u2014\u00a0Texas Republicans\u00a0on Wednesday unveiled a new congressional map that creates five additional GOP-leaning districts, bolstering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":105222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[24166,5229,24167,13565,67744,1578,359,1596,50,80,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-105221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-all-markets-rank-everywhere","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-app-for-your-consideration","11":"tag-app-local-state-politics","12":"tag-app-national-politics","13":"tag-associated-press","14":"tag-austin","15":"tag-dallas","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-san-antonio","19":"tag-sanantonio","20":"tag-texas","21":"tag-tx","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114943084650570052","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}