{"id":149237,"date":"2025-07-15T01:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T01:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=149237"},"modified":"2025-07-15T01:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T01:16:11","slug":"how-the-gops-texas-redistricting-could-backfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=149237","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How the GOP\u2019s Texas Redistricting Could Backfire&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/politicalwire.com\/2025\/07\/11\/how-the-gops-texas-redistricting-could-backfire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Political Wire<\/a>: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/puck.news\/newsletter_content\/rubio-28-whispers-paxtons-biblical-divorce-politics-putinology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Abby Livingston<\/a>: \u201cThe 2021 map was drawn for incumbent protection in a wave year, which could also be the case next year if historical trends hold up. To pick up new seats, Republican voters will need to be pulled from safe Republican seats to redden currently Democratic districts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The math: \u201cIf Republicans go after three seats this way, the changes can probably be made with little fanfare and concentrate mostly on South Texas, which is trending toward the G.O.P. anyway. But if they go big \u2014 aiming for, say, five seats \u2014 the lines could make reelection much more difficult for Republican incumbents in Houston and Dallas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2025\/07\/10\/texas-redistricting-congressional-districts-past-mistakes-overreach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Texas Tribune<\/a>: As Texas Republicans prepare for mid-decade redistricting, cautionary tales loom from the past.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Wire: &#8220;Abby Livingston: \u201cThe 2021 map was drawn for incumbent protection in a wave year, which could also be the case next year if historical trends hold up. To pick up new seats, Republican voters will need to be pulled from safe Republican seats to redden currently Democratic districts.\u201d The math: \u201cIf Republicans go&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149238,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149237\/revisions\/149238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}