The Republicans thwarting the White House’s redistricting hopes

Politico ^ | 10/28/2025 05:16 PM EDT | Andrew Howard

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Efforts to remap red states before the midterms are hitting roadblocks from state-level Republicans.

Efforts to remap red states before the midterms are hitting roadblocks from state-level Republicans.

Protesters cheer during a rally against redistricting at the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis on Aug. 7, 2025. | Michael Conroy/AP

A fiercely independent governor in New Hampshire, an octogenarian iconoclast in Nebraska and a Kansas Republican who bucked his party on transgender legislation have unwittingly formed a national bulwark against President Donald Trump’s aggressive redistricting push.

Despite threats and force, Trump’s team is finding there are some state-level Republicans who simply won’t budge on a legally questionable strategy that would grow the GOP’s advantage in next year’s fight to keep the House.

And then there’s Indiana, where state Senate leader Rodric Bray says he lacks support in his caucus to undertake a redraw, even as GOP Gov. Mike Braun called a special session to start next week.

At the urging of the White House, Republicans have already drawn seven new GOP-leaning House seats via mid-decade redistricting in three states, with more on the way. But the nationwide remapping effort is losing steam, largely due to these state-level Republicans refusing to blink at the Trump team’s threats of primaries. And while cracks are forming in Trump’s strategy, Democrats are waking up to the dangers ahead, POLITICO reported this week.

The few Republicans willing to defy the president constitute a dying breed in a party that’s become solidly MAGA under Trump’s thumb.

“If they want to threaten me with something, I don’t know what it’d be,” Kansas Republican Rep. Mark Schreiber, who is among holdouts in the state, said in an interview. “I’m fine with the stance I’m at.”

As Trump desperately tries to cling to control of Congress for the remainder of his term,...

[FLT-bird]

Dream on Pollutico. They’ve pushed through a more Republican friendly map in North Carolina. They pushed on through in Texas. Florida is guaranteed to push one through and when SCOTUS strikes down racial gerrymandering, that will mean a loss of 12-15 more seats.

[House Atreides]

Hey! Only DemocRATS are allowed to gerrymander, don’t cha know.

[sam_whiskey]

“For those trying to bully me on redistricting, I love you,” Indiana state Sen. Greg Goode said on X last week. “I pray to our Lord and Savior for wisdom and reflect on political heroes who stood up for the greater good above the politics of the day.”

Good grief, what a kook…

[sauropod]

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[unclebankster]

Incumbents of both parties don’t like redistricting because it changes the status quo.

Oh well.

Carry on with redistricting and faster please.

[Ancesthntr]

“ Dream on Pollutico. They’ve pushed through a more Republican friendly map in North Carolina. They pushed on through in Texas. Florida is guaranteed to push one through and when SCOTUS strikes down racial gerrymandering, that will mean a loss of 12-15 more seats.”
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One additional factor that is going to significantly help, Republicans is a mid decade census. A lot of people think that it is unconstitutional, but that is simply not the case. The constitution merely mandates that it be done once every 10 years, and we have done that in every year ending with zero since 1790. But nothing prevents any additional census in between The main ones. The 2020 census was “flawed,” (IOW, fixed) such that it gave the Democrats at least six additional seats, even given illegals were counted as part of the population. Trump has deported about a half 1 million illegals so far, and roughly 3 times that many have self deported, so that will significantly reduce the population of democrat states. Additionally, I think that there are better than even odds on Trump being able to conduct the census and leave out those who are illegally present. If just a fair census with the lower numbers of illegals removed is conducted, Republicans will probably benefit by 8 to 10 congressional districts and electoral votes. If illegals can be excluded altogether, we are looking at probably 20 seats and electoral votes. That is on top of redistricting and removing The Black districts that were mandated under the “Civil Rights Act.”

We may not see a real big result in 2026, but by 2028 I would expect significant losses among the artificially boosted (rigged) Democrats that we have been dealing with for several decades. Combine that with the growing unpopularity of both Democrat policies and their moronic and out of touch leadership, and we have the makings of a generational shift toward the Republican Party, unlike anything that has been seen since the 1930s.

[Night Hides Not]

I hope I’m still alive when the 2030 census is completed. There’s going to be a big shift in congressional districts with all the movement out of California and NY to red states.