Downtown Lincoln on Mar, 25. 2025. (Juan Salinas II/ Nebraska examiner)

LINCOLN — Nebraska could join the national mid-decade redistricting fight that Texas and President Donald Trump started.

Retiring Nebraska Republican U.S. Rep. Don Bacon confirmed to the Examiner that national and state conversations are happening about Cornhusker State legislators potentially redrawing the Omaha-based 2nd Congressional District — though he emphasized that, to him, it was “nothing serious.” Yet.

Much depends on how national Democrats react to Texas Republicans’ efforts to consider a new map designed to give the GOP up to five additional seats in the U.S. House in 2026, a mid-term election when the party out of federal power, the Democrats, typically gains seats and perhaps control of Congress.

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