Trump's Plan To Rig the Midterms Is Backfiring 'In a Major Way': CNN Data Guru

[babylonsister]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/carl-gibson/116047/trump-s-plan-to-rig-the-midterms-is-backfiring-in-a-major-way-cnn-data-guru

Trump’s Plan To Rig the Midterms Is Backfiring ‘In a Major Way’: CNN Data Guru
by Carl Gibson | January 25, 2026 - 6:01am

— from Alternet

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In a segment on CNN News Central, Enten told host Kate Bolduan that when factoring in Democratic responses to Texas' gerrymandered maps, Republicans' efforts have so far failed to bear fruit. This includes new maps in Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio that each gave Republicans an additional seat in the House of Representatives.

Democrats in California countered Texas' maps by voting overwhelmingly for Prop 50, which put in place new maps giving Democrats an advantage in five Republican-held districts. And in deep-red Utah, a judge struck an all-Republican redistricting map, giving Democrats an additional seat in the Beehive State.

The GOP's efforts in Indiana also failed, despite Republicans controlling both chambers of the state legislature and Gov. Mike Braun (R) pushing hard for new GOP-friendly maps. And Democrats in blue states like Maryland, New York and Virginia are poised to re-draw their maps to give Democrats an advantage.

"The bottom line is this: it started out as a plus for Republicans, and now it looks like the Democrats have fought back and fought back in a major way," Enten said. "It looks like it‘s going to be a plus for them nationwide."

"If you said to me last summer, Democrats are more likely to gain than Republicans, I wouldn‘t buy it," he continued. "But again, as I said at the start, Donald Trump and the Republicans started this mid-decade redistricting war, but it looks like Democrats are going to finish him off."

[MarineCombatEngineer]

1. As my late daddy used to say,

"For every action, there is a reaction".

The repigs are finding out the reaction to their insane actions.

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. Nothing will stop the Blue Tsunami

Not gerrymandering, not ICE, not voter suppression.

The widespread, shared suffering, and now horror, at the hands of this administration will unite the vast majority of the electorate in opposition in November.

[Norrrm]

3. Gerrymandering chart

Ollie North wanted to run for Congress in Southwest Virginia but he lived in northwest Virginia and did not want to live with his constituents, so they drew a pencil thin region up the western side of Virginia making his house connect in the same so-called district.

[Phoenix61]

4. Thank you for posting the graph. It's so much easier

to explain gerrymandering in pictures than it is in words.