https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/08\/07\/republicans-are-full-steam-ahead-on-redistricting-and-not-just-in-texas-00496450<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Trump\u2019s team is putting \u201cmaximum pressure on everywhere where redistricting is an option and it could provide a good return on investment,\u201d according to a person familiar with the team\u2019s thinking and granted anonymity to describe it.<\/p>\n
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a handful of Democratic-leaning states \u2014 including California \u2014 handed mapmaking power to independent commissions instead of leaving it in the hands of the state legislatures. States where Democrats retain the power to gerrymander, like Illinois and Maryland, have very little room to draw more advantageous maps than their current ones.”<\/p>\n
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