Washington Post: “Political leaders in Washington and Austin have assumed that the five newly drawn congressional districts — which Trump would have won by at least 10 percentage points in last year’s election — will be safe Republican seats if the Texas legislature approves them. The battle over altering the maps in Texas has escalated into a broader national fight, with Texas Democratic lawmakers leaving the state to delay a vote and governors in blue states threatening to retaliate by redrawing their own maps.”
“But the new maps in Texas, to varying degrees, depend on Republicans keeping voters like Cuellar and expanding on Trump’s historic inroads among Latinos in South Texas and across the country. Three of the five newly drawn Republican districts will have a higher percentage of Hispanic voters.”
