A Republican-led committee of the Texas Senate voted 5-3 on Thursday to advance the state's new congressional map, drawn to flip as many as five U.S. House seats to the Republicans, pushing President Donald Trump's gerrymander toward final passage as early as Thursday evening.

Gov. Greg Abbott was expected to sign the new map into law within days.

Lawmakers in Texas and in California were hurtling forward Thursday with competing partisan proposals to aggressively redraw the political maps for their U.S. House districts in a rapidly evolving clash over redistricting between the nation's two most populous states. The president said Thursday morning on social media that Republicans in Missouri have agreed to redraw their map as well, aiming to flip a Democratic seat in Kansas City to the GO

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