The Texas redistricting plan may very well backfire and instead create an opportunity for Texas Democrats.

This is in part because Texas is already heavily gerrymandered. And in redistricting there, they counted on Latino support, despite the fact that Latino support for Trump is cratering.

My name is Dina Dahl with the Midas Touch Network. Let's break this down.

Now, there's many reasons why this newly past redistricting plan may create an opportunity for Texas Democrats.

One has to do just with what gerrymandering entails. In order to create more secure districts or even more

swing districts, Republicans have to take Republican support from one district and put it

into another. And the problem with Texas is that it was already heavily gerrymander, which meant there weren't a lot of districts

that you can take extra support from. Let's say you have a district that it's like 90% Republican,

then you can take 30% of that support and put it into a district that perhaps was 30% Republicans, and now you have a 60%

Republican district and a 60% Republican district. But if you've already done that quite a bit,

and your support is more around the, you know, 50%, 60%, then when you take 10 or 20% down,

you create more swing districts. So Texas started out with

very heavily gerrymandered districts. So there weren't a lot of, let's say, extra Republican voters

to take from those districts in order to create more red districts. So when they created these extra five districts,

what they had to count on were these new Latino voters that swung for Trump in 2024. And it is

true that Latino support increased in 2024. Pew research shows that it was in fact young Latino voters who were

let's say swing voters to Trump. They cared quite heavily about the economy. They saw Trump,

unfortunately, as the populist president, they thought he was going to help the economy.

As we know, his support among Latinos, Trump's support Latinos, is cratering.

But despite that research, and I'm going to get into that research, Texas counted on those voters still being willing to support a Republican candidate in

2026. So essentially, they're counting on voters who may not even be with them anymore,

creating instead a whole bunch of districts that may now be more

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