How Trump's bid to reshape House maps stalled after pushback from Democrats, courts

The midterm elections were still 16 months away, and Democrats were in trouble.

Upending decades of precedent, U.S. President Donald Trump convinced Texas Republicans last July to redraw the state's congressional map in an extraordinary effort to protect the party's fragile majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. Other Republican-led states were poised to follow suit.

Democrats had limited options to counter Trump's drive to add Republican seats. They controlled fewer statehouses, and several strongholds, including California and New York, had constitutional provisions outlawing any similar countermove. Republicans appeared poised to pick up as many as a dozen new House seats in November.

Eight months later, the picture looks starkly different. Trump's push stalled in several Republican states, while Democrats' own aggressive moves in states like California, and favorable court rulings have allowed them to claw their way to a near-draw.



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