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共和党控制的得克萨斯州众议院拟强行通过重新划分选区的法案
一、共和党控制的得克萨斯州议会拟强行通过选区划分法案
为推进一项唐纳德·特朗普总统支持的帮助共和党在2026年的中期选举中维持美国众议院多数席位的策略，由得克萨斯州共和党议员控制的众议院选区重划委员会于8月2日按党派立场投票通过了该州新的国会选区地图。
这张根据上届选举中选民投票倾向划分的新选区图，旨在让共和党候选人在明年的中期选举在这5个目前由民主党占据的联邦众议院选举中获得多数。
新选区图取消了目前由民主党人格雷格·卡萨众议员在奥斯汀地区的席位，他可能会被迫在奥斯汀地区与另一位自由派民主党众议员劳埃德·多格特争夺一个席位。
共和党人还将民主党众议员阿尔·格林在休斯顿地区的席位与另一位已故民主党众议员西尔维斯特·特纳的空缺席位合并。格林就是在特朗普今年参加议会演讲时举着拐杖抗议的民主党老资格议员之一。
该地图还会让分别由民主党众议员亨利·奎利亚尔和维森特·冈萨雷斯占据的得州南部的两个席位的选民更倾向于共和党。
据得州立法委员会数据，若得州的新选区图在2024年总统大选前生效，特朗普可在该州30个选区获胜，而非27个，并将使其以10个百分点以上优势获胜的席位增加5个。美国政治分析家认为，如果得州选区重划的法案获得通过，可能会在2026年中期选举中使民主党失去其目前占据的5个美国众议院席位，从而使特朗普和共和党保住其在众议院的微弱多数优势。
位于得州首府奥斯汀市的州议会大厦
二、得州民主党议员采取集体出游策略抵制投票
根据美国选举法和惯例，各州通常根据美国人口普查数据公布结果每10年重新划定国会选区边界一次，而得州在十年中期修订选区地图确实是极为罕见的举动。
得克萨斯州共和党人称，因现有选区图违宪且存在种族性选区操纵问题；而民主党人则表示，这是赤裸裸的欺诈行为，目的是提升共和党在2026年保住众议院控制权。
得克萨斯州民主党主席肯德尔·斯卡德尔表示，若该地图获批，民主党将提起诉讼，并抨击该州的共和党议员“正代表唐纳德·特朗普压制选民声音”。在在一份声明中称：“民主党人必须不惜一切手段对抗特朗普的夺权行为，全国的蓝州（民主党占优的州）应以此为信号，开始重新划分本州选区，让这些想成为威权者的共和党议员后悔当初开启这场选区重划战。”
为阻止得州众议院就重划选区法案进行投票表决，得州民主党州议员于8月3日采取集体离州度假行动。因为根据得克萨斯州州众议院的议事法案，只有占州众议院三分之二议员出席方可构成法定人数。
该州议会中的民主党人曾在2021年采取同样的离州行动，以阻挠一项新增投票限制的法案。在那次事件后，由共和党人控制的得克萨斯州众议院出台新规，规定议员若缺席（包括“为阻碍众议院行动”而缺席），每天将被罚款500美元。
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三、民主党拟采取多种措施加以反制
长期批评党派性选区操纵的全国民主党选区重划委员会主席埃里克·霍尔德表示，现在或许是民主党改变策略的时候了。
8月3日，他在美国广播公司的《本周》节目中表示：“我们必须认识到，他们在得克萨斯州的所作所为给这个国家带来的威胁，确实加剧了我们民主制度面临的危险。因此，我们不得不采取一些在过去我可能不会支持的举措。”这位前司法部长称，民主党仍将通过多种途径应对，包括提高选民意识以及对该州提起诉讼。
一名美国众议院民主党议员将其描述为一场新的“选区重划军备竞赛”。加利福尼亚等州的民主党州长警告称，他们将采取同样策略以回应得克萨斯州的选区重划行为，帮助本党赢得更多席位。
美国众议院少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯及其政治团队正在加利福尼亚、纽约、新泽西、明尼苏达和华盛顿州探索类似计划，希望在明年11月至少翻转几个共和党席位。根据目前民主党和共和党在众议院的席位分布，民主党在明年的中期选举中只需净增3个席位就能赢得众议院的控制权。
美国历史上被称为蝾螈地图的最受舆论抨击的选区划分图
Texas panel advances redrawn congressional map that could take 5 Democratic seats. By Kaanita Iyer. CNN. Aug 3, 2025.
A Texas House panel on Saturday advanced a new congressional map as state Republicans power ahead with a strategy backed by President Donald Trump to help the GOP maintain the US House majority in the 2026 midterms.
The map, unveiled earlier this week, attempts to make five Democratic congressional seats more favorable to Republicans. Texas Republicans argue the move is necessary over concerns that the current maps are unconstitutional and racially gerrymandered. Democrats have said it would suppress the votes of people of color.
The Texas House redistricting committee voted along party lines Saturday to approve the map, setting up a full House vote.
Texas Democratic Party Chair Kendall Scudder said Saturday the party will file a lawsuit if the map passes, adding that state Republicans are “silencing voters on behalf of Donald Trump.”
“Democrats must fight this Trump power grab through any means necessary, and blue states across the country should use this as a signal flare to start carving up their own states and make these authoritarian wannabe Republican lawmakers regret ever opening up this redistricting discussion in the first place,” Scudder said in a statement.
Democratic governors in states like California have already warned they will attempt the same tactics to help their party win more seats, in what one US House Democrat described to CNN as a “redistricting arms race.”
US House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and his political team are exploring similar plans in California, New York, New Jersey, Minnesota and Washington state in hopes of flipping at least a handful of Republican seats next November. Democrats need a net gain of just three seats to win the House in the midterms.
The new Texas map features 30 districts that Trump would have won in 2024 if the map was in place, up from 27 under the current district lines. In total, there are five more seats that Trump won by more than 10 percentage points, according to data from the Texas Legislative Council.
The proposed map eliminates the Austin-area seat of Rep. Greg Casar, who would likely be forced into a primary with another liberal Democrat, Rep. Lloyd Doggett, in the Austin area.
Multiple people close to Doggett have told CNN they do not expect him to bow out quietly and instead foresee the two battling it out in a primary. One of those people close to the senior House Democrat pointed out that he has $6.2 million cash on hand.
In a statement this week, Doggett did not address the question of his future and said his “sole focus” is defeating the new GOP map.
Casar, for his part, vowed in a statement to “fight back with everything we’ve got,” calling for voters to “mobilize against this illegal map.”
Republicans also propose merging the Houston-area seat of Rep. Al Green with a vacant seat held by the late Rep. Sylvester Turner, who died in office earlier this year. Green’s district was altered more than any other sitting member in the plan. Democrats expect Green to run in the new seat, though he may have to battle it out with some of the Democrats who were already running for the Turner seat.
The map would also make two southern Texas seats — held by Democratic Reps. Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez — more Republican-leaning. But multiple Democrats view the seats as still in reach for the two centrist members who typically performed ahead of statewide or national Democrats.
Texas Democrats leave the state to prevent quorum needed to vote on redistricting measure. By Aileen Graef, Ed Lavandera, and Steve Contorno. CNN, August 3, 2025.
Texas Democrats pushed back on the Republican effort to rewrite the state’s congressional map by leaving the state Sunday to prevent a quorum needed to advance the measure in the Texas House.
The redistricting, if passed, could potentially eliminate five Democratic US House seats ahead of the 2026 midterm elections as Republicans hope to hold on to their slim House majority.
States typically redraw congressional district boundaries once every 10 years following the release of new population data from the United States census. A mid-decade revision of the map would be an extraordinary move – one that Democrats contend is a nakedly partisan effort aimed at bolstering Republicans prospects of retaining control of the House in 2026.
Two-thirds of the state House is required to achieve a quorum in Texas. Democrats in the legislature attempted the same move in 2021 to block a bill that would have imposed new voting restrictions. After that effort, new Texas House rules were put in place to fine members $500 a day if a member is absent, including “for the purpose of impeding the action of the House.”
Texas Republicans argue the move is necessary over concerns that the current maps are unconstitutional and racially gerrymandered. Democrats have said it would suppress the votes of people of color.
The move comes as US House Speaker Mike Johnson, self-declared head of the “majority protection program,” has faced extensive negotiations within his slim majority to pass President Donald Trump’s agenda.
Democrats nationwide have threatened to respond to the redistricting in Texas with the same tactics in states like California and New York. National Democratic Redistricting Committee Chairman Eric Holder, a longtime critic of partisan gerrymandering, says it may now be time for Democrats to change their approach.
“We have to understand that the nature of the threat that has been put upon the country through what they’re trying to do in Texas has really increased the danger to our democracy. And as a result of that, we’ve got to do things that perhaps in the past, I would not have supported,” he said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday.
Holder, a former attorney general, said Democrats would still pursue avenues including raising voter awareness and bringing litigation against the state.