Texas Republicans are triumphant Thursday morning after a success in their efforts to redraw the state's congressional maps – but California Democrats are set to make their move, in a redistricting battle that has become a proxy war between President Donald Trump and California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

The national redistricting battle enters its next phase Thursday as California Democrats are scheduled to pass a new congressional map that creates five winnable seats for their party, a direct counter to the Texas House's approval of a new map to create more conservative-leaning seats in that state.

Democratic voters loathe partisan redistricting, but support California doing it to counter Texas, according to a new national poll on Gavin Newsom’s high-stakes gerrymander.

The national tit-for-tat redistricting battle entered its next phase Thursday as California Democrats launched their final legislative push to redraw their<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More

California Democrats are making moves to put a ballot measure pushing pro-Democratic maps before voters this fall. Other Republican-controlled states are looking at redraws, too.

The new map, ordered up by President Donald Trump and endorsed by Gov. Greg Abbott, would wipe out five Democrat-held congressional districts