White House Pushes Texas to Redistrict, Hoping to Blunt Democratic Gains - NYT

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8. They'll need to be more clever about how they do it, their margins are too thin to handle a strong Democratic shift

That was always the risk to the gerrymander-ers, you stretch out the big margins to pad closer races but if there's a big change in the electorate's composition and bias, suddenly all those thinned-out gerrymandered margins are a danger to you. Your previous gerrymander just backfired hard. If the GOP number-crunchers are nervous enough to engage with the power brokers and get F47 to play the omerta card on Texas Republicans, this could mean big things for future elections.

Assuming we get to have elections in the future, of course.

Now there might be some amazing topographical tricks they're about to pull off, or a few races they'll have to let go so they can move Republican votes to pad a different district. But if this is an issue at all, it means the previous districting strategies are no longer safe bets, and that means they perceive a major change in the upcoming electorate. So this is actually a distant ray of hope.