{"id":919,"date":"2026-05-28T09:04:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T09:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=919"},"modified":"2026-05-28T09:04:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T09:04:56","slug":"republicans-are-poised-to-finish-this-years-redistricting-war-10-seats-ahead-of-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=919","title":{"rendered":"Republicans are poised to finish this year\u2019s redistricting war 10 seats ahead of Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div> <div>\n<button>\n<strong>\n<span><svg>\n<\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<span>Summary<\/span>\n<\/strong>\n<span><svg><\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<span><svg><\/svg>\n<\/span>\n<\/button>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Republicans are poised to end the midterm redistricting battle as many as 10 seats ahead of Democrats.<\/li>\n<li>The Supreme Court&#8217;s recent ruling weakening the Voting Rights Act has accelerated GOP efforts across Southern states.<\/li>\n<li>Both parties are now preparing for even more aggressive redistricting campaigns in the 2028 election cycle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<span>AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            The coast-to-coast battle to gain an edge in November\u2019s elections through partisan gerrymandering is racing to its conclusion \u2013 with Republicans poised to finish with as many as 10 seats ahead of Democrats through redistricting alone.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=905\">Federal prosecutors charge Google engineer for allegedly using insider info to make $1.2 million on Polymarket<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            The GOP kicked off the fight last year in Texas, changing boundaries for US House districts in the hopes of improving the party\u2019s chances of surviving a blue wave this fall, with Democrats responding in turn. The US Supreme Court\u2019s blockbuster decision last month to gut one of the remaining pillars of the 1965 Voting Rights Act further supercharged redistricting efforts across the South, prompting several Republican-controlled states to move election dates and eliminate districts with sizable Black populations.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The moves could be a major boon in efforts to protect House Speaker Mike Johnson\u2019s razor-thin majority ahead of the midterm elections. But regardless of the outcome in November, the mid-decade redistricting battle has likely altered American politics permanently \u2013 fueling a growing appetite to redraw lines for partisan advantage every election cycle, rather than every decade after the census, as is traditional.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cThere is no normal,\u201d said Justin Levitt, a professor at Loyola Marymount\u2019s law school who runs the \u201cAll About Redistricting\u201d website. He pointed to the high court\u2019s string of election-related rulings in recent years, including a 2019 opinion declaring that federal courts could not police partisan gerrymanders, as helping pave the way for the extreme actions now taking hold.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cThe Supreme Court has effectively announced that the adults have left the room,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat you see is what you get when you reward bad behavior, which is a lot more bad behavior.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            With primaries well underway around the country, both parties now have run out of battlegrounds on which to wage new redistricting fights this year. But they are gearing up for even more aggressive gerrymanders in the 2028 election cycle.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Here\u2019s a look at where the redistricting battle stands:\n    <\/p>\n<h2>\n        Republicans gain the edge\n<\/h2>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Louisiana state Sen. Jay Morris speaks about Senate Bill 121, a bill to to redistrict the state's congressional districts, to members of the Louisiana state legislature in Baton Rouge, on May 14.\" class=\"wp-image-913\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/3f2a48aff645db19c2fcbe9c4c087a33.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/3f2a48aff645db19c2fcbe9c4c087a33.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/3f2a48aff645db19c2fcbe9c4c087a33-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>Louisiana state Sen. Jay Morris speaks about Senate Bill 121, a bill to to redistrict the state&#8217;s congressional districts, to members of the Louisiana state legislature in Baton Rouge, on May 14.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Stephen Smith\/AP<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Republicans have a slim majority in the US House, 218-212, counting newly independent California Rep. Kevin Kiley, who still caucuses with the GOP despite leaving the party amid a tough reelection race in the wake of redistricting. The party faces a difficult path in retaining its hold on the chamber after November\u2019s elections, given that the president\u2019s party typically loses power in the midterms.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Facing that history, Texas Republicans kicked off the mid-decade redistricting campaign last year at President Donald Trump\u2019s behest. Roughly 10 months later, Republicans have changed boundaries in six states that target 14 Democratic-held districts.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<header>\n<span>\n      Related article\n    <\/span>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo Illustration by Alberto Mier\/CNN\/@SenatorBerger via X\/California and Missouri state legislatures\" class=\"wp-image-914\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5021b99d64aafb3d126a4906a57bbcd5.jpg\" width=\"256\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>Photo Illustration by Alberto Mier\/CNN\/@SenatorBerger via X\/California and Missouri state legislatures<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Photo Illustration by Alberto Mier\/CNN<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n<span>Tracking states\u2019 unprecedented redistricting efforts<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div>3  min read<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Louisiana\u2019s GOP-controlled legislature is still at work on a map that takes aim at a Democratic district, but it is expected to win the approval of lawmakers and its Republican Gov. Jeff Landry. Landry took the extraordinary step of postponing the state\u2019s primary elections for the House to respond to the US Supreme Court\u2019s ruling, which struck down the state\u2019s congressional map.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Republican officials in Alabama also changed their election calendar, setting a new special primary election for four US House seats on August 11 in their quest to target one of two Democrats in the state\u2019s seven-member House delegation.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            (A court ruling Tuesday blocked Alabama\u2019s new map. But state officials have filed an emergency appeal with the US Supreme Court, asking the justices to revive their plan.)\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Should they succeed both in Louisiana and Alabama, Republicans would end up with 10 more seats that favor their party through redistricting than Democrats have drawn.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Despite their edge in the gerrymandering battles, redistricting alone might not save the GOP paper-thin majority in the House. Trump\u2019s approval rating in CNN\u2019s Poll of Polls stands at just 36%, among the lowest of his career \u2013 adding to the headwinds his party faces.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cRepublicans have added about 10 seats that will have moved the median district even further to the right,\u201d said Adam Kincaid, president of the National Republican Redistricting Trust, a key player in this cycle\u2019s map-drawing. \u201cIt certainly will help hold the majority in the fall.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Republican pollster Patrick Ruffini said the redistricting push has proved worthwhile by helping to reduce the number of competitive districts the GOP must aggressively defend in November.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cEven if Democrats are still favored to win,\u201d he said, \u201cit\u2019ll be a very narrow seat margin.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<h2>\n        Some resistance at the state-level\n<\/h2>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Demonstrators gather on the South Carolina statehouse steps in Columbia, during a rally in opposition to congressional redistricting held on May 14.\" class=\"wp-image-915\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0af1475e76be72152c5c0ded9f842205.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0af1475e76be72152c5c0ded9f842205.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/0af1475e76be72152c5c0ded9f842205-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>Demonstrators gather on the South Carolina statehouse steps in Columbia, during a rally in opposition to congressional redistricting held on May 14.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Sean Rayford\/Getty Images<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Some state-level Republicans have balked at the national pressure to change their boundaries.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            On Tuesday \u2013 as early voting in the state\u2019s primary election got underway \u2013 the GOP-controlled state Senate in deep-red South Carolina bucked Trump and refused to approve a map that would have targeted the sole Democrat in the state\u2019s delegation, 17-term Rep. Jim Clyburn, an influential figure in national politics.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Some Republican lawmakers said it was just too late to act, given that more than 25,000 South Carolinians already had cast ballots that morning.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cNeither my conscience nor common sense will allow me to stop an election that has already begun,\u201d said GOP state Sen. Richard Cash, reversing his earlier support for the plan.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=901\">Iran\u2019s forever war: Deal or no deal, Iran\u2019s challenge to America will outlast Trump<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n            The resistance among some South Carolina Republicans, however, had brewed for weeks. In an impassioned floor speech earlier this month, Republican state Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey warned that seeking a clean GOP sweep of the state\u2019s seven seats would put Republican incumbents at risk by adding too many additional Democratic voters to their districts.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Massey, who said he fielded calls from Trump seeking a new map, also argued there was a benefit to South Carolina having at least one Democrat in Washington. \u201cRegardless of who the president is, regardless of who\u2019s in charge, there has to be somebody in South Carolina who can make a phone call and somebody at the White House will answer it,\u201d he said.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The saga in South Carolina echoed last year\u2019s dramatic outcome in Indiana, where Republicans in the state Senate rejected Trump\u2019s demands to produce two more US House seats friendly to the GOP.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            The president scored payback in this month\u2019s Republican primary election, toppling five Indiana state senators who defied him. But any revenge that Washington Republicans might seek against those who rebelled in the South Carolina Senate might have to be served cold. Senators in the Palmetto State are not for up reelection until 2028.\n    <\/p>\n<h2>\n<strong>Democrats stumble<\/strong>\n<\/h2>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A Virginia resident attends an election night watch party in Arlington, as they await results of Virginia\u2019s congressional redistricting vote on April 21.\" class=\"wp-image-916\" height=\"513\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/c7a2d653915d98f922711a2725162c86.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/c7a2d653915d98f922711a2725162c86.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/c7a2d653915d98f922711a2725162c86-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>A Virginia resident attends an election night watch party in Arlington, as they await results of Virginia\u2019s congressional redistricting vote on April 21.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Heather Diehl\/Getty Images<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Overall, redistricting has yielded just six more seats friendly to Democrats.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But it\u2019s not for lack of trying.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            In response to Texas, Democrats in California persuaded voters to set aside an independent redistricting process and approve a map with five additional Democratic-friendly districts. A court ruling in Utah, meanwhile, paved the way for a Democratic-friendly district in Salt Lake City.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            But the party\u2019s bruising, multimillion-dollar effort to gain seats in Virginia failed. Voters backed an initiative earlier this year aimed at helping Democrats win four additional US House seats from the state, only to have the state Supreme Court block it.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            However, Elaine Kamarck, a senior fellow at Brookings Institution and longtime Democratic National Committee member, argues that Republicans may have overreached in their redistricting push in some places, such as heavily Latino districts in Texas.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Trump \u201cdid do well among Hispanics in 2024,\u201d but that was before his administration\u2019s aggressive deportation actions, she said. \u201cThe polling shows Hispanics are not crazy about Trump anymore.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<h2>\n        Action on 2028 maps starts now\n<\/h2>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries holds a press conference on congressional redistricting at the US Capitol on May 13.\" class=\"wp-image-917\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/43447f0e19c2c9ce34187f4f40596dd2.jpg\" width=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/43447f0e19c2c9ce34187f4f40596dd2.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/43447f0e19c2c9ce34187f4f40596dd2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries holds a press conference on congressional redistricting at the US Capitol on May 13.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Kevin Dietsch\/Getty Images<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Even as the window closes on further action that could affect November\u2019s midterms, both parties are preparing to move aggressively on maps that will shape future elections.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Next month, Georgia Republicans will hold a legislative session to seek additional House seats in the 2028 election.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            And in Mississippi, GOP Gov. Tate Reeves has pledged to target the state\u2019s sole Democrat, Rep. Bennie Thompson. Thompson, who has served more than three decades in the House, gained national attention and Trump\u2019s enmity as chairman of the House select committee that investigated the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Democrats also plan their own blitz \u2013 although it will require them to dismantle independent redistricting systems in some of the states they control.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries recently told CNN that his fellow Democrats in New York, New Jersey, Washington state, Colorado, Oregon, Maryland and Illinois must act \u201caggressively\u201d to respond to the GOP\u2019s gerrymandering campaign. Additionally, half a dozen more states could be on the table if Democrats can win key state races this November.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<header>\n<span>\n      Related article\n    <\/span>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) speaks to reporters during a news conference in the U.S. Capitol Building on March 3, 2026 in Washington, DC.\" class=\"wp-image-918\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/525e2394aaa7603ebff69f7953aba9db.jpg\" width=\"256\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<span>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries speaks to reporters in the Capitol on March 3, 2026.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<figcaption>Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n<span>Hakeem Jeffries wants to redraw House maps from Oregon to New York. He\u2019s willing to take on Democrats to do it<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div>9  min read<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            In heavily Democratic Maryland, the state Senate President Bill Ferguson recently reversed his earlier resistance to a map that would target the sole Republican in the state\u2019s congressional delegation.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            Ferguson said he now is weighing a special legislative session after the state\u2019s June 23 primary election to craft a ballot initiative on redistricting, in the wake of the Supreme Court\u2019s decision further weakening the Voting Rights Act. The ballot measure would be put before voters in November. \u201cMaryland must respond as the ground shifts under us,\u201d he said in a statement.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            And Democrats have indicated a willingness to pursue redistricting campaigns in states that already have drawn new lines this year, including California, if the party retains its hold on the governorship there.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cThere is no federal law that requires congressional districts to be contiguous,\u201d Levitt noted. \u201cIf California wanted to, it could put pockets of deep-red San Bernadino County in with San Franciso or deep-red northern Mendocino County in with West Hollywood.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n            When it comes to partisan gerrymanders, \u201cthere\u2019s a lot more room for things to get worse,\u201d he said.\n    <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationtimess.com\/?p=895\">Scientists newly identify species of tiny, blue octopus that fits in the palm of your hand<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coast-to-coast battle to gain an edge in November\u2019s elections through partisan gerrymandering is racing to its conclusion \u2013 with Republicans poised to finish with as many as 10 seats ahead of Democrats through redistricting alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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