WASHINGTON — Last summer, Texas Republicans kicked off a nationwide redistricting war when they followed President Donald Trump’s request to redraw the state’s congressional map mid-cycle to deliver five additional seats to the House GOP.
The effort appears to have yielded a stalemate, at best, for national Republicans.
Texas’ unusual move unearthed a wave of resistance from blue-state Democrats, who were initially thought to be handicapped from retaliation by independent redistricting commissions. Instead, voters in California and Virginia decided to temporarily suspend their commissions via ballot referendum in favor of new maps drawn to yield Democrats up to a combined nine seats.
