The Republicans in Texas had scheduled a vote on a new coordination of congress electoral circles for the beginning of August, which would probably massively favor the party in the next nationwide parliamentary election in the coming year.
More than 50 democratic MPs then temporarily left the state in a sensational step to block the vote. A large part of them went into the democratically ruled state of Illinois.
The Democrats only agreed to their return to Texas after the parliamentarians in the state of California had brought the parliamentarians in the state congress to a new line of the constituencies there – which in turn would favor the Democrats.
Trump’s Republicans want to defend their current majority in the congress chamber with the new cut. The ruling party usually suffers significant losses in the so -called midterms; The Democrats therefore hope to be able to recapture the House of Representatives in autumn 2026.
The shift of the limits of constituencies in the individual states in favor of one or the other party is a political trick with a long tradition in the USA. He is known under the term gerrymanening. The constituencies are tailored so that a party’s chances of winning increase.
As a rule, the constituencies are redefined every ten years based on census data on the population structure. In Texas, this is now expected earlier than actually planned.
