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Posted on 07/20/2025 12:18:23 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, a Texas Democrat who represents a slice of the Rio Grande Valley along the border with Mexico, won his last congressional election by just over 5,000 votes.
That makes him a tempting target for Republicans, who are poised to redraw the state’s congressional maps this coming week and devise five new winnable seats for the GOP that would help the party avoid losing House control in the 2026 elections. Adjusting the lines of Gonzalez’s district to bring in a few thousand more Republican voters, while shifting some Democratic ones out, could flip his seat.
Gonzalez said he is not worried. Those Democratic voters will have to end up in one of the Republican districts that flank Gonzalez’s current one, making those districts more competitive — possibly enough so it could flip the seats to Democrats.
“Get ready for some pickup opportunities,” Gonzalez said, adding that his party is already recruiting challengers to Republicans whose districts they expect to be destabilized by the process. “We’re talking to some veterans, we’re talking to some former law enforcement.”
Texas has 38 seats in the House. Republicans now hold 25 and Democrats 12, with one seat vacant after Democrat Sylvester Turner, a former Houston mayor, died in March.
Gonzalez’s district — and what happens to the neighboring GOP-held ones — is at the crux of President Donald Trump’s high-risk, high-reward push to get Texas Republicans to redraw their political map. Trump is seeking to avoid the traditional midterm letdown that most incumbent presidents endure and hold onto the House, which the GOP narrowly controls.
Trump’s push comes as there are numerous political danger signs for his presidency, both in the recent turmoil over his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case and in new polling...
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With housing non-discrimination imposed under Obama, district lines should be a non-issue.
I know the Democrats will complain about this gerrymandering.
But Democrats perform gerrymandering in places where they are in control.
I suppose in a perfect world, congressional districts would be drawn to be as equal in population , and as geographically compact as possible. But in this imperfect world, some districts have bizarre boundaries.
I read that Governor HairGel wants to do the same.This could be messy.
It’s not a “risk” when the fascist, commie DemonRATS do it.
Governor Handsome has some obstacles in his gerrymander quest
1. Trying to redo it before a new census
2. He’s attempting to subvert an “independent commission” that already redrew the lines
Go to a county by county point system. Each county in a state is one point. Most counties a get the electoral vote. Or the senate vote. This also reduces cheating as it can be tracked from the county seat. Leave congress alone.
We should not redistrict in the middle of a cycle. Yes, the dems have been trying for years to get courts to force ad hoc refistricting, but that’s an abuse. We’re at risk of drifting into continuous redistricting if we’re not careful.
“I know the Democrats will complain about this gerrymandering.”
If they do, refer them to New Mexico. District 2 was a reliable Republican seat for years. The Democratics openly said they were going to flip the seat by redrawing lines.
And the state independent redistricting commission ruled it wasn’t legitimate, the demonrats flipped them the finger and did it anyway. Let the SOBs complain.
22 House seats were decided by < 3%.
Dems won at least 12 of these. The AI found no party info for some of the seats.
Of the Dem seats 7 were flips. One, AK, of the GOP seats wa a flip.
Don Bacon was one of the 22 and is retiring, so the GOP candidate will not have the power of incumbency in 2026.
Democrats invented gerrymandering and used it for decades to retain power. They only turned against it when Republicans finally overcame therie gerrymandering and reversed it on them
If the AP doesn’t like it, you know it’s a good thing. See Tagline.
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