Texas voters are split on the Republicans' redistricting push, which could net five more GOP House seats ahead of the midterms, new polling shows.

In a Texas survey from Emerson College Polling, 38 percent of voters opposed the proposal to redraw congressional maps, just slightly more than 36 percent who supported it. Another 26 percent were unsure.

Support for the plan was significantly higher among Republicans, at 58 percent, than among Democrats, at 15 percent, and independents, at 24 percent.

Texas Democrats have fled the state in a last-ditch bid to deprive the state Legislature of the numbers it needs to function, stalling the redistricting proposal from moving through an ongoing special session — though Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is expected to call another.

The redistricting plan, ba

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