Texas gerrymandered five seats.
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Deadline: White HouseOct 28, 2026
Multiple reliable sources (Reuters, NBC News, CBS News Texas, AP) report that Texas Republicans redrew the congressional map in 2025 to target five Democratic-held seats, and the new map is in use for the 2026 midterms.
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… It's in a lot of places where there's been gerrymandering, non-racial gerrymandering, where voters are saying, you can't do this to us. We will prove to you that your things may not work. Texas is a great example. They gerrymandered five seats. They're, they're trailing in at least two of them, maybe two and a half of those seats. Yeah, I mean, Charlie, this was always the double-edged nature of the sword they wielded in cheating so publicly, so brazenly, and so early after Donald Trump won a …
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Supports. CBS News Texas reports that District 32 is one of the five districts Republicans targeted to flip, and that the redrawn map was approved and is being used for the midterms.[3]
Supports. NBC News reports that the Texas Legislature redrew its map in 2025 at Trump's request with the aim of taking away five congressional seats from Democrats.[4]
Supports. The AP reports Texas was the first state to adopt new U.S. House districts after Trump urged Republicans to do so, and that the new Texas districts are being used this year.[1]
Supports. Reuters reports Texas Republicans redrew congressional maps last year to win the Latino contingent that helped power Trump's 2024 win, with several districts made more favorable to the GOP.[2]
Context. The Brennan Center's 2024 study, a separate earlier analysis, described Texas gerrymandering as giving the GOP an extra five seats, though it predates the 2025 redraw.[5]
Sources
5 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 2 tier 2, 1 not rated
- 19 states have new US House districts for midterm electionsapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2Republicans may have gerrymandered their way into a Texas-sized Latino problemreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 3How do Texans feel about the gerrymandered Texas congressional map?cbsnews.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 4Texas redistricting confused these Latino voters, but will it ...nbcnews.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 5Gerrymandering gives GOP a five seat advantage in Texas, study sayshoustonpublicmedia.org · not rated · cited for: context
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