Battle of national constituencies California Democrats will enter their next phase on Thursday as they are expected to pass a new Congress map that will create five winning seats for the party. Texas House approval A new map to create seats that tend to be more conservative in that state.
California Governor Gavin Newsom We designed a risky strategy Responding to the brink of President Donald Trump himself. Trump urged Texas Republicans to resume The legislative map they passed in 2021 squeezed out up to five new GOP sheets, helping the party cause a midterm defeat.
Unlike Texas, passing by a Republican-controlled state senator and signatures by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott are everything you need to make the map official. California faces more uncertain routes. Democrats must use legislative supermajority to pass maps at two-thirds of margins. They will then have to schedule a special election in November to approve maps that voters must sign by Friday before the vote deadline.
The added complexity is because California has an independent committee approved by voters who Newsom himself supported before Trump’s latest district change manipulation. Only state voters can disable maps approved by the committee in 2021. But Newsom said extraordinary steps are needed to counter Texas and other Republican-led states that Trump is pushing for revising the map.
“This is a new Democrat. This is a new day. This is a new energy across the country,” Newsom said Wednesday in a call with a reporter. “And we’re going to fight the fire with fire.”
Texas Democrats have surpassed the state’s legislatures, delaying approval of the new map for 15 days after fleeing Texas in protest earlier this month. They were assigned 24-hour police surveillance When they returned to make sure they had attended Wednesday’s session.
The session ended with an 88-52 partisan vote to approve the map after more than eight hours of discussion. Democrats also vowed to challenge the new Texas map in court, complaining that Republicans had made political power moves before passing laws that addressed the fatal flood that swept the nation last month.
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On Tuesday night, signs of a resolution of a rigid Democratic district, in former President Barack Obama Supported Newsom’s bid to redraw a map of Californiasays it’s a necessary step to eat up the GOP’s Texas move.
“I think that approach is a smart and measured approach,” Obama said during a fundraiser for the departments of major Democratic districts.
Incumbent Presidential Party usually loses its seats in Congress in the midterm elections, and the GOP now controls the House with just three votes.
Trump is over Texas with his push to remake the map. He urges Republican leaders in conservative states such as Indiana and Missouri to try to create new Republican seats. Ohio Republicans had already revised the map before Texas moved. Meanwhile, Democrats are considering reopening the maps of Maryland and New York.
But more democratic nations have a committee system, such as California and other rezoning restrictions than Republicans, to ensure they reach the GOP freely to redraw them quickly. For example, New York will not be able to draw new maps until 2028.
The Struggle for and against Texas Constituency
Texas Republicans have publicly said they were acting in the interests of the party. State Sen. Todd Hunter, who wrote the legislation for officially creating new maps, noted that the U.S. Supreme Court allowed politicians to redraw districts for naked, partisan purposes.
Other than threatening lawsuits that block smoke and block maps, there were few Democrats could do. As the Supreme Court congratulated the purely partisan gerrymanders, the only way the enemy could stop the new Texas map is to argue that it violates the Voting Rights Act requirements to keep minority communities together so that they can choose their chosen representative.
The House Republican’s frustration with the Democratic flight and his ability to delay votes was evident during the vote Wednesday.
House speaker Dustin Burrows announced when debate began when the door to the room was locked and members were leaving A permit slip was required. The door was unlocked after last passing over 8 hours.
Republicans issued a private arrest warrant to bring Democrats back to bring Democrats back to bring them back to revive after leaving the state on August 3, and Abbott called for several Democrats to be appointed to the state Supreme Court. Lawmakers also face $500 fines for their daily absence.
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Associated Press journalists John Hanna of Topeka, Kansas, and Sarah Klein of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, contributed to the report.