On July 15, 2025, “President Donald Trump said … that he is pushing Texas Republicans to redraw the state’s congressional maps to create more House seats favorable to his party,” AP News reported on that day, in a story headlined, “Trump tells Texas Republicans To Redraw the State Congressional Map To Help Keep House Majority”.
Trump’s push for “redistricting,” against all norms and standard procedures of what a Congressional District should look like, is intended to prevent a democratic majority which will likely impeach him.
A second reason for Trump’s redistricting is apparently to marginalize and disenfranchise Afro-Americans, Hispanics, and minorities, as before the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
To understand “redistricting” or “gerrymandering,” there are 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, and thus 435 Congressional Districts which each have 1/435 of the American population which was 761,000 per district in 2020. Every decade, when a new national Census is taken, the districts are redrawn, and states that have lost population may also lose congressional districts, whereas states that have gained population gain congressional districts. The lines of the districts may also be redrawn within states to reflect population shifts.
