{"id":150082,"date":"2025-07-30T10:57:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T10:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=150082"},"modified":"2025-07-30T10:57:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T10:57:47","slug":"a-texas-sized-gamble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=150082","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Texas-Sized Gamble&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/politicalwire.com\/2025\/07\/30\/a-texas-sized-gamble\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Political Wire<\/a>: \u201cAs early as today, Texas Republicans will release their proposed new congressional map for the Lone Star State,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/punchbowl.news\/archive\/73025-am\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Punchbowl News<\/a>&nbsp;reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThis proposal could change some as it winds its way through the Texas House and Senate. But here\u2019s what we expect it to look like, according to multiple sources with detailed knowledge of the process.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cUnder this scenario, there would be five new seats that President Donald Trump would have carried by 10 or more points. This could give the GOP an advantage of 30 Republicans to eight Democrats in the Texas congressional delegation in the next Congress (it\u2019s currently 25 Rs, 12 Dems and one vacancy).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIt\u2019s huge news in Austin and on Capitol Hill. It may help the GOP keep control of the House in 2026 \u2014 or trigger redistricting fights in other state capitals as Democrats retaliate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Wire: \u201cAs early as today, Texas Republicans will release their proposed new congressional map for the Lone Star State,\u201d&nbsp;Punchbowl News&nbsp;reports. \u201cThis proposal could change some as it winds its way through the Texas House and Senate. But here\u2019s what we expect it to look like, according to multiple sources with detailed knowledge of the&#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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150082","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=150082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150083,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150082\/revisions\/150083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}