Economy

Republican Midterm Redistricting Now Looks Like a Blunder

President Donald Trump’s mid-decade redistricting war is shaping up to be a strategic blunder. At the president’s urging, Republicans gerrymandered new maps based on Trump’s 2024 performance, wrongly assuming the midterm electorate would match his presidential coalition. Now, once-durable Republican strongholds that were redrawn for partisan gain have become fragile, forcing Republicans to direct resources to districts they thought would be solidly red.