“President Trump’s high-stakes push to create more Republican House seats and keep the majority from flipping to Democrats has erupted into a cross-country fight, prompting the exodus of Democratic state lawmakers from Texas and leading blue-state governors to hatch their own plans,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Both parties are now racing to remake congressional lines in a slew of mid-decade redistrictings, breaking with traditional once-a-decade changes and injecting further uncertainty into what is expected to be a down-to-the-wire fight for control of the House in 2026.”

Axios: Democrats go nuclear in redistricting arms race.

Republicans in Texas, acting on President Trump’s push to redraw congressional lines mid-decade, have set off a chain reaction that could trigger a nation

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