Utah is set to go to the polls Monday on concessional maps for the 2026 election
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A district judge in Utah is expected to make a blockbuster decision Monday on which three red state maps will be used in the 2026 election.
Utah District Judge Dianna Gibson’s decision in which she chooses means Democrats have a fighting chance next year to unseat Republican-controlled state seats.
Utah is the latest state to find itself smack in the middle of the stimulus bill between President Donald Trump and Republicans versus Democrats creating a major midterm battle.
The Faceff patch for renewal in Utah, a State Trump took by almost 22 points in the last Presidential election, was created by each of the Utah gynecologists and the government of Utah, which prompted Gibson to release the current meeting map of the state. Plaintiffs say the current map favors Republicans.
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Judge Dianna M. Gibson will rule on Monday when Utah’s three state maps are used for the 2026 election. (Utah State Courts; Joe Sohm / Views of America / Universal Pictures Group via Getty Images)
Gibson’s departure required the GOP-controlled state legislature to draw a new map, which lawmakers agreed to last month.
The map drawn by the legislature could give Democrats a chance to force a US House seat in four of the state’s two states.
Gibson, who will choose between the legislative map and the other two drawn by the plaintiffs, said he will rule on November 10, which is the day Tah Lt.
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The decision in Utah comes six days after California’s ‘excessive transfer’, a ballot measure that will temporarily block the left-wing revenue recovery commission and restore the power to draw a democratically-controlled legislature.
California Gov. Gavin Newlom speaks during the Tiger Electight Press Conference at the California Democratic Party Office on Tuesday, November 4, 2025, in Sacramento, California. (Godofredo A. Vásquez / AP Photo)
That is expected to lead to five Democratic-leaning states in California, which will face the role at the beginning of this year in the reliable red state of Texas of the new map that aims to create seats that reach a higher level.
“California broke. Now, we’re taking this fight to the rest of the country – helping Democrats in other states get back on FOX News Digital last week, as they point to Trump and Republicans to redistrict in the middle of the decade.
It’s part of a broader effort by Trump’s political party and the GOP to pad the House caucus to retain control of the chamber in the 2026 Midterms where the party has traditionally faced political hair-raising and lost seats. Missouri, North Carolina, and Ohio drew new maps as part of the President’s push.
President Donald Trump points to a mountain in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, in Washington. (Alex Brandon / The Associated Press)
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Trump aims to reverse what happened during his first term in the White House when Democrats took back the House majority in the 2018 election.
Illinois and Maryland, the two blue states, and the Democrats where they control the legislature, are moving forward and renewing the legislatures, looking more, as are the red states of Nevada, Kansas, and Florida.
