Trump urges Texas Republicans to make House elections even less democratic to mitigate his enormously unpopular agenda
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The contempt Republican elites have for democracy isn’t incidental to the unpopularity of the policies they support:
President Donald Trump wants lawmakers in Texas to redraw the state’s congressional district map to give Republicans five more House seats, he told reporters Tuesday.
“There could be some other states we’re going to get another three, or four or five in addition. Texas would be the biggest one.” he said. “Just a simple redrawing we pick up five seats.”
The White House and Department of Justice pushed for the redistricting, POLITICO reported Friday, and Gov. Greg Abbott asked state leaders to do it during a summer special session. The move is seen as an opportunity for Republicans to prevent Democrats from flipping the house back in 2026, but some see it as a dangerous risk.
Democrats currently control 12 of Texas’s 38 congressional districts. A 13th district anchored by downtown Houston is currently vacant but was controlled by Democrats until the death of Rep. Sylvester Turner last March.
And while filibusters can carry some risk in a wave election, with modern computer models the risks are generally pretty minimal.
It’s not great that California and New York have unilaterally disarmed — thank you Andrew Cuomo! — but none of this would be an issue if not for one of the Roberts Court’s worst decisions.