House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has warned that if President Trump and his GOP allies expand their gerrymandering efforts beyond Texas, Democrats will respond in kind. Democratic legislators in California have already advanced new House maps designed to nullify the GOP’s new advantage in Texas, where Republicans redrew their lines at Trump’s request to help the GOP retain its slim House majority in next year’s midterm elections. As the president presses more GOP state legislators to follow Texas’s lead, Jeffries said other Democratic states are ready to do the same. “Corrupt and desperate Republicans are scheming to gerrymander the congressional map in Indiana,” Jeffries wrote on social platform X. “Democrats will respond forcefully, just like we did in California.” The redistricting battle comes as Trump and Republicans face a tough midterm cycle and are scrambling to pad their razor-thin House majority through rare, mid-decade redistricting efforts in GOP states. A power shift in the lower chamber would allow Democrats to launch countless investigations into the administration through the final two years of Trump’s second term, a scenario the president is fighting to prevent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n