“President Trump’s insistence that Texas Republicans redraw their House map before the 2026 midterms is looking like it could backfire in a big way,' the editorial board wrote.
Published: Nov. 21, 2025, 12:47 p.m. Texas from using its new U.S. House district maps in the 2026 midterm elections earlier this week. Trump pushed Texas Republicans earlier this year toThe Wall Street Journal’s editorial board argued that Trump’s redistricting plan will have dire consequences for the GOP in next year’s elections.
“President Trump’s insistence that Texas Republicans redraw their House map before the 2026 midterms is looking like it could backfire in a big way. A federal court on Tuesday struck down the new map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The dispute is a legal hash, but it suggests the GOP didn’t look before leaping into a mid-decade gerrymander free-for-all,” the editorial board The editorial board noted that the federal judges blocked the new maps due to racial gerrymandering before criticizing the GOP effort to redraw the districts. “Give that a second to sink in: The opinion says the Trump Administration wrongly claimed the first Texas map was a racial gerrymander, which prompted the state to attempt to undo it with an actual racial gerrymander. The ruling quotes Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP lawmakers saying they acted to address DOJ’s concerns,” the editorial board wrote. “Texas Republicans will surely petition the Supreme Court to stay the panel’s decision. And its reasoning is convoluted and questionable, especially given that many GOP legislators in Texas admitted their partisan motives. Even so, it shows the risk that Republicans took by starting this mid-decade redistricting race to the bottom,” the board added. The board also argued that Democrats’ responses to GOP’s redistricting efforts could further hurt the GOP’s chances of holding onto the House majority. California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s “The Democratic reaction to Mr. Trump’s Texas power play could erase most, if not all, GOP gains. Californians this month resoundingly passed Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Prop. 50, which will give his party five more seats and buttress several vulnerable Democrats in what were previously competitive districts,” the board wrote.“Mr. Trump’s attempt to bludgeon GOP state legislatures to redo their districts could turn out to be a misjudgment that costs Republicans their House majority,” the board wrote.If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation.and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our
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