Republican Election Guru Says GOP House Majority Is Under Threat

Paul Morigi / Getty Images for The Atlantic One of the Republican Party’s most celebrated political strategists is sounding the alarm about the aggressive redistricting push backed by President Trump. Karl Rove, the former political architect for George W. Bush and a Fox News contributor, even warned that the playbook could cost the GOP its House majority rather than secure it. Speaking to Trey Gowdy on the network on Sunday, he laid out the math in stark terms. Asked by Gowdy whether the new maps risked winning the battle but losing the war, Rove said: “Oh, sure. You could, in essence, take, you know, like here in Texas, take big cities, which are typically Democrat, and split them up among several sort of suburban and rural Republicans and thereby reduce their margin and make them more vulnerable in an election year. Read more at The Daily Beast.

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