Texas GOP advances new maps that would tighten its slipping grip

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Texas lawmakers are finishing redrawn House maps that would shore up their eroding dominance as voters peel away from the GOP in the suburbs.

Republicans who control both chambers of the Legislature have nearly complete control of the mapmaking process. They are working from maps that experts and courts have already declared as gerrymandered in their favor, and the state has had to defend their maps in court after every redistricting process since the Voting Rights Act took effect in 1965.

Republican state Sen. Joan Huffman, who authored the maps and leads the Senate Redistricting Committee, has told lawmakers they were “drawn blind to race.” She said her legal team ensured the proposal followed the Voting Rights Act.Conservative legislation and executive actions confounded expectations for Texas as it diversified and attracted Californians.

Republicans with newly fortified advantages include Rep. Van Taylor, whose district in Dallas’ exurbs went for President Donald Trump by a single percentage point last year. Under the new maps, Trump would have won the district by double-digits. And a long, vertically drawn district stretching from the Rio Grande Valley to San Antonio that President Joe Biden won by just over 2 percentage points would now slightly tilt toward Trump voters.

 

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Kinda like what California does for Democrats ? just saying, Texas has nothing on CA when it comes to Gerrymandering, CA has made it an Art

Eventually they will just say if your last name isn’t Smith or Johnson you can’t vote in Texas.

Lol. Now the LA times pretends to have a gerrymandering problem. Stfu,hacks

Mevlid Kandili, which is the day of the last prophet Prophet Muhammad (SAV), will be realized on this day. Have a blessed mawlid.

I love gerrymandering. I 😘💕💕💕

good luck

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