Redistricting Push Tests Trump’s Strength

“Donald Trump has strong-arming Congress down to a science. Now his redistricting gambit is putting his methods through a stress test,” Politico reports.

“It’s a strategy of intensifying levels of private coercion and public threats of consequence, driven by Trump and amplified by aides and allies behind closed doors and through the online MAGA echo chamber: White House visits, calls from the president, online insults and even primary threats.”

“The more-stick-than-carrot approach has delivered Trump major wins in Washington by helping him barrel through initial GOP resistance to controversial Cabinet picks and a politically perilous policy package in a stunningly short turnaround.”