Texas GOP Releases New Congressional Map Proposal

“Just a simple redrawing. We pick up five seats,” Trump said of the plans earlier this month.

Adam Kincaid, executive director of the National Republican Redistricting Trust, told The Hill in a statement that the draft congressional map gives Republicans five “real pickup opportunities” for the midterms “while also increasing the number of majority-minority districts, improving the map’s compactness, and reducing the number of split counties.”

Texas Democrats have responded to the proposal by accusing Republicans of “trying to rig the midterms.”

“By merging our Central Texas districts, Trump wants to commit yet another crime— this time, against Texas voters and against The Voting Rights Act,” Casar said on X.

The National Redistricting Foundation (NRF), the nonprofit affiliate of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, called the proposed map “a racially discriminatory, brazen power grab.”

“It is an insult to all Texans, who have demonstrated overwhelming, bipartisan opposition to President Trump’s order to draw a mid-decade gerrymander,” said executive director Marina Jenkins in a statement.

Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair Ken Martin said in a statement that the party will be “exploring all options” to fight back against the new maps.

“The newly introduced Texas maps are a blatant power grab by Texas Republicans, designed to further dilute minority representation in Texas,” Martin said in a statement.