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On entitled
Democrat
21 NO VOTES
Then the rest of the board, in order. Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio redrew in the fall of 2025 1. In Indiana the map he asked for failed in the state Senate, 31 to 19, with 21 Republicans voting no; his response: "We won every other state. That's the only state" 2. Florida signed a new map in May with four Republican pickup chances 3. Virginia's Democrats passed an amendment to redraw theirs, and the state's supreme court struck it down 4. In April the Supreme Court decided Louisiana v. Callais, holding that the Voting Rights Act "did not require Louisiana to create an additional majority-minority district" 5.
The Cook Political Report's net across all of it: about eight seats toward Republicans and two toward Democrats, with the competitive field cut from 87 seats to 77 6. Every one of those lines was drawn by a legislature, a commission or a court. Tomorrow is the part no legislature gets to draw.
Sources
- Mid-decade congressional redistricting in 2025–26, state by state — Wikipedia, 2025–2026 United States redistricting ↑
- Indiana's Senate rejected the map 31–19, with 21 Republicans voting no; "We won every other state. That's the only state" — Al Jazeera, 12 December 2025 ↑
- Florida's governor signed a new congressional map with four Republican pickup opportunities — Roll Call, 4 May 2026 ↑
- The Virginia Supreme Court struck down the redistricting amendment; the U.S. Supreme Court declined to reinstate the map — SCOTUSblog, 15 May 2026 ↑
- Louisiana v. Callais, 6–3: "the Voting Rights Act of 1965 did not require Louisiana to create an additional majority-minority district" — SCOTUSblog, 29 April 2026 ↑
- Republicans about +8 seats and Democrats about +2 from redistricting; competitive seats down from 87 to 77 — Colorado Politics, citing the Cook Political Report, 29 July 2026 ↑
Republican
ENTITLED
The line, from a phone interview on August 5, 2025: "We have an opportunity in Texas to pick up five seats. ... And I won Texas. I got the highest vote in the history of Texas, as you probably know. And we are entitled to five more seats" 1.
The case for it is the law as the Supreme Court wrote it. In 2019 the Court held that "partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts" 2. Both parties have used that room. Illinois's Democrats signed a map in 2021 projected at 14 seats to 3 3. Texas drew for five in August 2025, and in December the Supreme Court let the Texas map stand for 2026 4. California's voters answered in November 2025, approving Proposition 50 by about 64 percent to 36 and redrawing five Republican-held seats 56. Entitled is a strong word for a map. It is not an illegal one.
Sources
- "We are entitled to five more seats" — CNBC Squawk Box phone interview, 5 August 2025 — Scripps News ↑
- "Partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts" — Rucho v. Common Cause, 27 June 2019 — Cornell Legal Information Institute ↑
- Illinois's new congressional map projected at 14 Democratic and 3 Republican seats — Capitol News Illinois, 24 November 2021 ↑
- The Supreme Court stayed the lower court's ruling, allowing the Texas map for 2026 — SCOTUSblog, 4 December 2025 ↑
- Proposition 50 approved, 64.42 percent to 35.58 percent — Wikipedia, 2025 California Proposition 50 ↑
- Five Republican-held seats targeted by the new California map — CalMatters, 5 November 2025 ↑
“When my nephew was little we played Monopoly, and he'd tell me he was entitled to Park Place because he'd been going around the board so long. I think about that. Five seats in Texas: "we are entitled to five more seats." Then Indiana, where the map failed 31 to 19 with twenty-one Republicans voting no, and the answer was, "We won every other state. That's the only state." Excuse me — I'll let you get home, it's a big day tomorrow. The seats he's entitled to. Who votes on them in the morning?”— Lou
“Entitled. Not "we'd like," not "we'll compete for" — entitled, the way you're entitled to a refund. Five seats out of Texas, and then the whole board: California drew five back, Florida drew for four, and Indiana's own Republican senators looked at theirs and voted no, twenty-one of them. By Cook's count the maps moved about six seats net. Tomorrow the maps meet the one thing a legislature can't draw.”
“No one is gerrymandering anyone; states are simply updating their maps to reflect the voters they expect to have, which, if you think about it, is a form of listening.”