The Political Battles Over Redistricting and Mail-In Voting

The Fox News Rundown

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🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Texas Democrats have returned after fleeing the state earlier this month to prevent the passage of a new Republican-backed redistricting plan, which could add more GOP House seats in next year's mid-term elections. The fight over redrawing congressional maps in the Lone Star State didn't just spark a national debate over gerrymandering but has also motivated California to retaliate with its own redistricting plan that would favor Democrats. Chuck Devore, a Republican executive with the Texas Public Policy Foundation and former California State Assemblyman, joins the FOX News Rundown to discuss the redistricting battles in Texas and California and how they may impact other states' actions and the 2026 elections.President Trump has announced plans to issue an executive order aimed at eliminating mail-in voting to "bring honesty to the midterms." His statements have reignited the debate over election integrity. Daron Shaw, a member of the Fox News decision desk and polling team and a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, joins the rundown to discuss how mail-in voting in America compares to other countries, the extent of federal government power over elections, and how the issue has become increasingly partisan.Plus, commentary from the Vice President of the Lexington Institute and Military Analyst, Dr. Rebecca Grant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:12.6	I'm Dave Anthony.
1:14.7	It's Texas versus California in a red state, blue state battle over red-drawing congressional
1:22.2	maps for next year's elections, and it could expand.
1:25.5	If you look nationwide and you look at states where you have a Republican legislature
1:31.0	and a Republican governor versus the opposite for the Democrats, if there is truly going
1:36.3	to be a nationwide redistricting war, the Democrats are going to lose.
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