J. DAVID GOODMAN

New York Times

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas House passed an aggressively partisan congressional map on Wednesday after weeks of legislative combat, giving President Donald Trump the gerrymander he requested − and possibly five new Republican seats in the U.S. House next year.

After more than eight hours of at-times tense and emotional debate, the final vote, 88-52, fell along party lines. It capped bitterly partisan political wrangling, with a Democratic walkout and Republican retaliation, and set off a redistricting fever that has spread from Austin to Sacramento, Calif., to Albany, N.Y.

The state Senate was expected to vote on the map as soon as Thursday evening, then send it by the end of the week to Gov. Greg Abbott for his promised signature.

The redrawing of Texas'

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