The Texas House approved the new congressional gerrymander sought by Donald Trump in a party-line vote on Wednesday. The state Senate is likely to follow suit this week, sending the map—which aims to flip five Democratic-held seats—to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott for his signature.
“The Republican-led Texas House on Wednesday approved a new congressional map crafted to hand five additional U.S. House seats to the GOP over fierce opposition from Democrats, who cast the plan as a racially discriminatory attempt by President Donald Trump to stack the deck in next year’s midterm election,” the Texas Tribune reports.
“The House adopted the map, 88 to 52, along party lines. A Senate panel advanced a similar map Sunday, and the full chamber was expected to send the new lines to Gov. Greg Abbott’