President Donald Trump, left; Rep. Mayra Flores, right. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
Along with other Democrats, the paper also referenced the new map’s merging of Reps. Lloyd Doggett and Gregorio Casar into the same district confines near Austin.
Casar is a millennial "Squad" member and Doggett is, conversely, the longest-serving member of the state’s delegation. Doggett indicated last week he won’t run again if facing Casar.
Casar told NPR the new map attempts to "silence the voices of my constituents and get folks like me out of Congress," by adjusting Austin-area lines – and claimed it violates the Voting Rights Act.
Additionally, Bexar County, which includes San Antonio, went about 55-45 for former Vice President Kamala Harris, but Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, is also among its political ranks. The county would see an increase in proportional representation for Republicans, according to reports.
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In California, which is about half Democratic and left-leaning independent, only nine of 52 congressional districts are held by Republicans. In Maryland, lawmakers finally redrew what a judge called a "broken-winged pterodactyl" of a Democratic district that included several noncontiguous pieces of Baltimore suburbs.
Flores said Texas, Florida, California and New York are worth revisiting on a congressional-districting basis if only for the trends of major ingress to the first two from the latter two states.
"We want to make sure that again every congressional district is a representation of the overall state and for critics to say that this [Texas] map silences the voices of minorities when four of the five of them you map are actually Hispanic majority," Flores said.
"Look, Hispanics are switching toward the Republican Party and will continue to support the Republican Party because the Democrat Party has gone so far left, and you would think that after 2024, they would have learned their lesson and they would come more to the middle," Flores said.
"Let’s see what happens in the 2026 midterms."
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