A redistricting ruling means the party is unlikely to pick up new seats in the next election while new analysis shows the party may find it more difficult to keep hold of two seats it won in the last election .

Texas Republicans could now lose seats in the November 2026 midterms, not gain them.

Because of a ruling on redistricting in the state, the party is unlikely to pick up new seats from redrawn electoral maps.

Meanwhile, according to unrelated analysis by political scientist Larry Sabato, the party may find it more difficult to keep hold of two seats it won in the November 2024 election as they are shifting toward the Democratic Party.

  • crusa187@lemmy.ml
    16·
    4 hours ago

    This was always going to be the end result of gerrymandering. When you’re constantly abusing razor-thin margins, and a political sea change comes along due to your party worshiping a child raping monster, election results will be bad.

    This is why repugs will almost certainly cheat in the upcoming midterms. Since elections are run by the state, I wonder if anybody will be able to stop them in Texas.

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    9·
    4 hours ago

    Perfect opportunity to find out whether or not they’re just going to falsely declare seats for the Republicans that they didn’t actually win, like both the state and federal GOP have been working towards for several years

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    55·
    7 hours ago

    My favorite part of this is that the redistricting would have had no problems in court if the Republicans had simply not talked about their race-related motives in public.

    With that said, I don’t have high hopes for the Supreme Court here.

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
    6·
    5 hours ago

    I’m a little curious how this impacts CAs efforts, as I believe those were meant to be contingent on TX but with appeals existing and the timeframe, I’m not sure when or if they’ll undo what they were going to do in CA. And CAs is pretty obviously not race driven, even if it’s blatantly partisan (yet that’s legal because fuck us).

    Would be really funny though if this backfires such that Ds get more gerrymandered seats overall, though, lol.

    • TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip
      6·
      4 hours ago

      CA lawmakers saw the writing on Texas’ glory hole wall and removed the “if Texas does” verbiage from prop 50 before it was put to vote. As it stands now, before appeals, CA gets to draw new lines, and TX can get fucked.

      • taiyang@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 hours ago

        Hmm. Neat. I didn’t mind Prop 50 mostly because it’s a one off thing. Plus we already know Rs already are more represented in the house than they should be due to gerrymandering, so it’s not like there aren’t other states to offset, lol.