President Trump’s campaign to redraw House maps in GOP states around the country will make it tougher for Democrats to win back control of the chamber in next year’s midterms, but it won’t knock them out of contention altogether, according to leading election handicappers.

While Trump and his Republican allies are battling to pad their slim House majority through partisan redistricting — a rare, mid-decade project that launched in Texas but could expand to other GOP states — a number of other factors leave Democrats well positioned to seize the chamber, the election experts say.

Not only is California vowing to revamp its own map to counter the GOP advantage in Texas, but the national mood currently favors the more energized Democrats; Republicans are defending a razor-thin House advanta

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