The maps achieve a five-seat swing largely by shaving slivers of Republican strongholds from ruby red districts and placing them inside three urban districts.

Texas House Democrats left the state Sunday in a desperate bid to block an aggressively partisan redrawing of the state’s congressional map orchestrated by Republicans with the support of President Donald Trump.

A group of Democrats has fled Texas in an attempt to block a Donald Trump-backed redistricting plan that could reshape the balance of power in Washington.