The political operation of President Donald Trump has approached the Texas Republicans to draw again the map of the Texas Congress before the next year of next year, in an attempt to protect the majority of the Republican Chamber, ABC News, ABC News.
Texas Republican legislators, who met in the issue in the United States Capitol on Monday night, described the conversations on the subject as preliminary, and most refused to discuss the initial conversations, which the New York Times reported for the first time.
“I’m not going to comment,” said Representative Ronny Jackson, Texas Republican.
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“We are still convincing,” said representative Brian Babin, a Texas Republican.
Currently, Republicans have a majority of the state seats of 25-12. A democratic seat in the Houston area is vacant, after the death of representative Sylvester Turner, D-Texas.
If the Republicans in Austin decided to move forward with the redistribution of districts, it is not clear how they would reconfigure the map. A republican source familiar with discussions said that up to five seats currently held by Democrats could be attacked.
But the source pointed out that any effort to attract Republican voters to democratic seats could be counterproductive, leaving more seats vulnerable to legal challenges or for democratic collection in an election of waves.
“There is an old southern saying: pigs fattening and pigs are sacrificed,” the source told ABC News about the potential risks of drawing the map again.
A second republican source familiar with discussions told ABC News that Texas Republican figures have discussed the potential to redistribute with the White House.
Republicans currently have a majority of 220-212 in the United States Chamber, with three vacancies. They began the session with a close majority of five seats and could face a possible reduction in the map of the Wisconsin Congress, depending on the result of several demands filed before the State Supreme Court.
Representative Marc Veasey, D-Texas, said conversations show that Republicans are “definitely” concerned with losing seats in November, since the current map, approved in 2021, was drawn by Republicans for the next decade.
There is an active federal demand on the current map, presented by defenders who have argued that he discriminates against color voters.
“I don’t think there is any questions about that. I mean, why would you want to do that knowing how restless I could make the electorate feel?” Veasey said.
When asked about the concerns of the Republican party about losing control of the house, Babin said: “We are always worried about the marshes. Who wants to enter the minority?
The redistribution of districts before the next census would be unusual, but not without precedents in Texas.
In 2003, the Republicans led by former representative Tom Delay pushed through an early reduction of the maps to fight against the control of the majority of the seats of the Democrats state, which caused a political struggle that reached the Supreme Court.
The White House and the governor Greg Abbott’s office did not respond to comments requests.
“I can’t control it, so I don’t care,” said the representative Dan Crenshaw, a Texas Republican, who suggested that his district could be one of those redrawn.
“If we really had to do it, districts like mine would obviously be those who are attacked because I live in the suburbs. I am the one I have to take from the rural areas and put in the suburbs, so basically I would return to my old district, I suppose.”
Republican conversations occur as some Democrats, once again, have established profits in Texas.
The Texas Democratic Party has launched a new organization effort with most Texas Pac, an external group backed by the Liberal Megadonor George Soros, the PAC announced this week.
Texas Republicans are expected to snuggle over the subject with the White House representatives next Thursday, legislators told ABC News.
Lalee Ibssa of ABC News contributed to this report.
