The Republicans thwarting the White House's redistricting hopes

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Source: Politico

10/28/2025 05:16 PM EDT


A fiercely independent governor in New Hampshire, an octogenarian iconoclast in Nebraska and a Kansas Republican who bucked his party on transgender legislation have unwittingly formed a national bulwark against President Donald Trump’s aggressive redistricting push.

Despite threats and force, Trump’s team is finding there are some state-level Republicans who simply won’t budge on a legally questionable strategy that would grow the GOP’s advantage in next year’s fight to keep the House. And then there’s Indiana, where state Senate leader Rodric Bray says he lacks support in his caucus to undertake a redraw, even as GOP Gov. Mike Braun called a special session to start next week.

At the urging of the White House, Republicans have already drawn seven new GOP-leaning House seats via mid-decade redistricting in three states, with more on the way. But the nationwide remapping effort is losing steam, largely due to these state-level Republicans refusing to blink at the Trump team’s threats of primaries. And while cracks are forming in Trump’s strategy, Democrats are waking up to the dangers ahead, POLITICO reported this week.

The few Republicans willing to defy the president constitute a dying breed in a party that’s become solidly MAGA under Trump’s thumb.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/28/the-republicans-thwarting-the-white-houses-redistricting-hopes-00625911

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1. K & R

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2. ... "Democrats are waking up

to the danger ahead?" The article makes the working people's party seem rather lame, and also very, slooooow to respond. Were we supposedly taking the moral high ground the whole time? Is the journalist @ Politico saying that it took the senior officials in the Democratic party ten years to establish a counter-attack? One might ponder, if the latter is so, then how could we be more effective in our strategizing going forward? Are our party's octogenarians to blame? Do we need to establish a more direct approach (other than suing them in court) to this admins lack of morality and staunch criminality?

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3. "Democrats are waking up to the danger ahead?"

Here is their article that they are referencing - Democrats get aggressive on remapping congressional lines

When it comes to sites like Politico, the OP article and the above-linked one, are MAJOR concessions to their usual spin and wording compared to stuff they have published in the past.

The issue over the past decade is that Democrats - like here in PA - spent a lot of resources UN-GERRYMANDERING prior GOP bullshit line-drawing - notably after the 2010 census and election. Democrats LOST 62 seats in the House and 6 seats in the Senate, after literally running away from Obama and "Obamacare" (the ACA). I saw it here on DU too.

It's ironic now that people are desperately depending on what Democrats ran away from 15 years ago.

But over that time, the GOP had seized states and gerrymandred themselves into a House majority for those 8 years following that 2010 election until we were able to "fix" SOME of what they broke (like here in PA, going from 13(R) - 5 (D) to 9 (R) - 9 (D)), and try to put guardrails in to make "fair maps".

However since elections ARE the responsibility of STATES, and the SCOTUS has pretty much upheld gerrymandering, then you are seeing the backlash of the desperate GOP trying to regain and maintain what they had done 15 years ago. And this means that Democrats are forced to work around their own guardrails to match that effort.

If anything, the biggest need is LOCAL (i.e., state/county/municipal - including governorships, state courts, as well as the state's elected legislative branch) and Democrats entrenching themselves in states in order to "control the lines".

Do we need to establish a more direct approach (other than suing them in court) to this admins lack of morality and staunch criminality?

What "direct approach" are you talking about other than the courts? I would assume civil war?