Barreto said that Republicans did not see the same gains with Latino voters in 2018, when Trump was not on the ballot, and Democratic Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke lost to Sen. Ted Cruz by less than 3 percentage points – the tightest Senate margin in Texas in decades.

Despite protests from Democrats, a Texas House committee advanced a draft congressional map Saturday that could add five new Republican districts next year.

The Texas House panel on congressional redistricting passed a GOP redistricting plan out of committee Saturday morning along party lines and over several Democratic objections. With a 12-6 vote, House Bill 4,