Texas GOP regret 'their overconfidence' as Trump-led effort 'may end up backfiring'

[LetMyPeopleVote]

This gerrymander may well end up being the classic dummymander

Texas GOP regret 'their overconfidence' as Trump-led effort 'may end up backfiring'

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— GritsLady (@gritslady.bsky.social) 2025-11-14T00:34:18.883Z

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After Texas Republicans' intial success in redistricting, President Donald Trump's gerrymandering strategy is starting to backfire, writes Salon's Heather Digby Parton, and as Democrats have the last laugh, Republicans are starting to doubt their "overconfidence" in Trump's strength.

Texas Democrats fled the state on two separate occasions — once in 2021 and once in 2025 — to block Republican legislation by denying the state House a quorum.

Their protests in 2021 centered on a restrictive voting bill, while the 2025 action was to oppose a new congressional map they condemned as a partisan gerrymander.......

Digby Parton notes that "the Texas redistricting was largely based on the idea that Trump’s 2024 win marked a massive, permanent shift of Latino voters to the GOP column," which proved untrue.

"Latino voters are not a monolith; there are regional and cultural differences. But the recent elections indicated large numbers in New York, New Jersey and Virginia had returned to the Democratic camp, a swing that could very well be equally reflected in Texas and any other state with a large Latino population," she writes.

Texas Republicans were so sure of themselves, she says, that they "indulged in what the political types call 'dummymandering'— diluting some of their safe seats where Trump won by large margins to ones where he would have won by less, and leaving themselves vulnerable, in a wave election, to losing seats instead of gaining five."

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. I hope that the Texas GOP efforts backfires

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Republicans are so effing stupid.

How can they possibly believe they could betray Latinos and expect them to stay loyal?

I can't wrap my head around that overestimation.

[Jspur]

3. Unfortunately a lot of Latinos suffer from self hatred and

desperately hope to be white which is why the Republicans believe they could betray them and get away with it. My best friend lived in Texas from 2014-2022 and he told me the Democrats never had a chance of flipping Texas blue despite it becoming a minority majority state simply because he observed so many Latinos who were filled with self hatred and would do anything to be accepted by white people. Keep in mind my friend is a registered Democrat so he definitely was frustrated observing what he saw.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. I believe that.

We see it with Cuban Americans. They thought they were the elite that could not be touched. Will be interesting to see what they do next election.

[Cha]

4. Gosh Fascists are Stupid... Didn't think

ICE Shit would make a Difference?

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

5. Ha ha!

[oasis]

6. Sweet. Please proceed with your dummymander.

[MoseShrute]

8. Maybe they did screw themselves

But they’ll just fix it by “adjusting “ the voting algorithms.

[Paladin]

9. Serves you right, TX GOP dumb-shits. (nt)

[Norbert]

10. David Cay Johnston said a while back it could backfire

He also said that lean right districts may get watered down. A strong voter turnout next year could flip seats that Abbott and dump may think are safe.