Texas Parliament definitely adopted a new electoral card on Friday, August 22, which should allow Republicans to obtain up to five additional seats in the United States Congress in Washington, during the 2026 legislative elections.
President Donald Trump had exerted public pressure on the republican officials of this State in the south of the country to carry out this redistribution destined to preserve his current major majority in the Federal Congress. The Republican governor, Greg Abbott, must now promulgate this new card.
“We are on its way to five additional seats in Congress and save their rights, their freedoms and his country, himself,” Donald Trump said on his social platform on Wednesday, he added: “Texas never drops us.”
The Texas electoral card will be modified so that the democratic vote is diluted, an electoral carcutation technique called “Gerrymandering”. The elected officials of the Democrats, in the minority of the Texan Parliament, tried the best they could to oppose.
Towards a dilution of the democratic electorate
They fled the State in early August, refugees in Chicago or New York, so that a quorum is not reached. His departure had prevented Republicans from organizing a vote on the text for more than two weeks.
The democratic group in the Texas House of Representatives notably denounced the will of the Republicans to “silence minorities voters for a racist Gerrymandering”, believing that the new electoral letter dilutes the voices of African -American and Hispanic electorates who, mostly, traditionally vote democrat.
Of the 38 Texas deputies in Congress in Washington, 25 are currently Republicans. The White House awaits 30 next year. Faced with this Tejana initiative, California, governed by Democrat Gavin Newsom, launched the steps to retaliate and rediscover his own map, in favor of the Democrats.
Source: BFM TV
