Trump’s congressional gerrymandering push is getting complicated for the GOP
Tamara Ceaikovski
As President Donald Trump laid it out to reporters this summer, the plan was simple. Republicans, the president said, were “entitled” to five more conservative-leaning U.S. House seats in Texas and additional ones in other red states. The president broke with more than a century of political tradition in directing the GOP to redraw those maps in the middle of the decade to avoid losing control of Congress in next year’s midterms. Four months later, Trump’s audacious ask looks anything but
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