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According to multiple reports, Republicans are considering redrawing congressional districts in two states before the midterm elections.
Republicans currently have a narrow advantage in the House of Representatives but have weighed redrawing the districts in Ohio and Texas.
It could potentially give the GOP seven additional House seats.
🚨 HUGE NEWS: Republicans consider redrawing the U.S. House district lines in OHIO and TEXAS, to pick up a total of 7 GOP seats.
This could stave off a Democratic House chamber flip in 2026. pic.twitter.com/On39rIeYys
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 21, 2025
Per CNN:
In Ohio, a quirk in state law is giving Republican state legislators another run at drawing new lines for the state’s 15 congressional districts. The goal would be to knock off two Democratic members of the House, giving the GOP a 12-3 advantage in the state’s congressional delegation. State lawmakers could go even further and target a third Democratic seat.
In Texas, meanwhile, Republicans are considering whether to hold a special legislative session to undertake a rare mid-decade map-drawing that supporters hope could result in the GOP picking up as many as five additional seats.
Democrats need a net gain of just three seats to win the House, raising the stakes for Republicans and President Donald Trump, who could see a Democrat-led House block his legislative agenda and open new investigations of him in the second half of his final term.
But redistricting is a double-edged sword: In drawing new lines, both states could also endanger GOP lawmakers by moving safe Republican territory into districts currently represented by Democrats.
Adam Kincaid, president and executive director of the National Republican Redistricting Trust, favors an aggressive redistricting approach.
“It’s a priority to keep the House, and Republicans should be looking for as many seats as we can get,” he said.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) views Texas as a critical battleground for Democrats to potentially flip the House.
“Be careful what you wish for,” he said.
Hakeem Jeffries all but dares Texas GOP to redraw district lines: “Careful what you wish for” https://t.co/aXkFKBDKfN
— The Hill (@thehill) June 12, 2025
From The Hill:
Jeffries, who is already forecasting that Democrats will flip control of the chamber, said the Texas districts are already so gerrymandered in the Republicans’ favor that tweaking the lines might actually play to the Democrats’ advantage by making a handful of safe GOP seats more competitive. He put the number between four and six.
“A lot of Democrats that we’ve talked to from Texas [have] actually come to the conclusion, based on the fact that the map is already gerrymandered at its height, that they could open up four to six swing seat opportunities that don’t exist right now for Democrats,” Jeffries told reporters in the Capitol.
Jeffries pointed to another rare, mid-decade redistricting process in North Carolina in 2023, which empowered Republicans to seize three Democratic seats — and turn an evenly split delegation (seven Republicans and seven Democrats) into a lopsided 10-4 advantage for the GOP. The ratio is hardly reflective of the demographics in the Tar Heel State — a true battleground, where the number of registered Republicans and Democrats is roughly identical.
Democrats have decried the shift as an underhanded power grab — “They stole three seats,” Jeffries said Thursday — but they’re hoping a similar effort in Texas will backfire on the Republicans in next year’s midterms.
“Instead of doing what they did in North Carolina, where they basically snatched victory from the jaws of electoral defeat that they were heading toward, they actually could provide enough seats in Texas alone for Democrats to take the majority back,” Jeffries said.