Most say partisan redistricting threatens democracy: Survey
Most Americans said partisan redistricting in the House threatens democracy, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Fifty-five percent of respondents in the Reuters/Ipsos poll said there is a negative effect on democracy from changing House district maps to secure seats, with 46 percent of Republicans and 71 percent of Democrats saying the same.
California and Texas are going head-to-head in a redistricting fight, with other states evaluating a similar process.
On Wednesday, the Texas state House passed a new set of GOP-leaning congressional lines, placing Republicans another step closer toward adopting a new map that kicked off a redistricting arms race.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), who is pushing for redistricting in his own state, appeared to issue a threat to the Lone Star State in a vague post on the social platform X.
“It’s on, Texas,” the Golden State governor said in his evening post.
Twenty-seven percent of respondents in the Reuters/Ipsos poll said they were unsure if there is a negative effect on democracy from changing House district maps to secure seats, and 18 percent said there was a positive effect from doing so.
The same Reuters/Ipsos poll also found President Trump’s approval rating stuck at the lowest level of his second term, 40 percent.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll, which was conducted Aug. 13-18, included 4,446 participants and has a margin of error of about 2 percentage points.