{"id":42703,"date":"2025-07-17T13:43:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T20:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=42703"},"modified":"2025-07-17T13:43:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T20:43:47","slug":"trump-admits-hes-trying-to-rig-the-midterm-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/17\/trump-admits-hes-trying-to-rig-the-midterm-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Admits He\u2019s Trying to Rig the Midterm Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Donald Trump is eying major reform in multiple states that could hand him an even bigger House majority.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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CELAL GUNES\/ANADOLU\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling<\/a>\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

July 16, 2025 (newrepublic.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The president is gung-ho about gerrymandering ahead of next year\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking with reporters on the tarmac of Joint Base Andrews Tuesday evening, Donald Trump said there\u2019s \u201cabout four\u201d states besides Texas that he would like to redraw their congressional lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn three cases, it\u2019s one. And in one case, it\u2019s two or three. And Texas would be five,\u201d Trump said<\/a> as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick nodded enthusiastically beside him. Trump had previously suggested<\/a> that Texas could give Republicans five more House seats by flipping a handful of blue districts in the Lone Star State next year via \u201ca very simple redrawing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But suggestions that California\u2014the largest liberal contingent in the country\u2014could do the same did not sit well with the MAGA leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAre you concerned California will turn around and do the same thing?\u201d asked a reporter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWell we\u2019ll fight them,\u201d Trump said. \u201cYou know they\u2019re so corrupt in California, you never know what\u2019s going to happen. But we\u2019ve done pretty well in the courts in California, you see. We\u2019re batting about 1,000, ultimately.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump has made a volatile enemy out of Governor Gavin Newsom. California sued the federal government last month after Trump deployed thousands of National Guard members to manhandle Los Angeles\u2019s anti-ICE protests. An appeals court later blocked<\/a> a court decision that would have handed the authority of the National Guard back to Newsom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, the vengeful governor is threatening to shift the state\u2019s redistricting policy if Texas follows Trump\u2019s orders. In an interview with The Tennessee Holler<\/a> last week, Newsom accused Republicans of \u201cplaying by a totally different set of rules,\u201d and warned that California\u2019s liberally dominant legislature could \u201cgerrymander like no other state.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been playing fair, but I saw what he just did, and it made me question that entire program,\u201d Newsom said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congressional maps are typically redrawn every 10 years, after new census data is released. But Texas\u2019s decision to do so in the middle of the decade\u2014at Trump\u2019s direction\u2014has raised alarms, with Democrats in the state labelling the effort a threat to democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe scheme of the Republicans has consistently been to make sure that they mute our voices so that they can go ahead and have an oversized say in this,\u201d Texas Representative Jasmine Crockett said at a news conference<\/a> Tuesday. \u201cSo I fully anticipate that\u2019s exactly where they\u2019re going with this map.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, the ideologically conservative majority on the Supreme Court made gerrymandering that much easier, ruling in Alexander v. South Carolina NAACP<\/em><\/a> that alleged racial gerrymandering in South Carolina (which is theoretically still illegal) was really just partisan gerrymandering, an apparently precious part of America\u2019s democratic system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump is eying major reform in multiple states that could hand him an even bigger House majority. CELAL GUNES\/ANADOLU\/GETTY IMAGES Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling\/ July 16, 2025 (newrepublic.com) The president is gung-ho about gerrymandering ahead of next year\u2019s midterm elections. Speaking with reporters on the tarmac of Joint Base Andrews… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42704,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42703\/revisions\/42704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}