AUSTIN (Nexstar) -- Democratic U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett announced he would end his reelection campaign if a new controversial congressional map is approved by the courts. Doggett currently serves a blue district in Austin.

"If the courts give Trump a victory in his scheme to maintain control of a compliant House, I will not seek reelection in the reconfigured CD37, even though it contains over 2/3rd of my current constituents," Doggett said in a news release Thursday evening.

This announcement comes just weeks after the longest-serving representative in the state's delegation said he would run for another term in Congressional District 37.

A new congressional map approved by the Texas House of Representatives on Wednesday would give Republicans an advantage to pick up an additional five

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