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特朗普警告称他将“密切关注”南卡罗来纳州共和党人就选区重划进行投票
作者：保罗·施坦豪泽、查尔斯·克赖茨 福克斯新闻网
发布时间：2026年5月12日 美国东部时间晚上8:25
前弗吉尼亚州总检察长杰森·米亚雷斯解读了最高法院推翻民主党重划选区地图的判决为何是“法治的胜利”。米亚雷斯指出，拟议的地图本会大幅动摇民主党手中的权力，他援引了最高法院强调必须遵守该州宪法修正案程序的判决内容。
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南卡罗来纳州的几名共和党州参议员周二挫败了该州共和党主导的州议会重划国会选区地图的努力，该计划旨在中期选举前取消该州唯一由民主党掌控的联邦众议院席位。
五名共和党州参议员与民主党人联手，违背本党意愿，击败了一项提案。该提案本允许州议会在本周晚些时候的南卡罗来纳州立法会议结束后就选区重划进行投票。
就在此次投票数小时前，总统唐纳德·特朗普在社交媒体上警告称，他将“密切关注”议员们推进修改该州选区地图的行动。
此次挫败意味着南卡罗来纳州很难再加入田纳西州、阿拉巴马州和路易斯安那州的行列——这些州正赶在中期选举前修改选区地图，以取消民主党掌控的国会选区，而届时共和党将捍卫其微弱的众议院多数席位优势。这些南部州是全国范围内选区重划对决的最新战场。此次对决的关键在于，在特朗普第二个总统任期的最后两年，哪个政党将掌控众议院。
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南卡罗来纳州议会大厦，位于南卡罗来纳州哥伦比亚市。(Getty Images)
南部各州共和党人的上述行动，是在最高法院保守派多数法官削减1965年《投票权法案》一项关键保护条款的判决之后展开的。大法官们裁定，种族不应成为重划立法选区地图的依据。
南卡罗来纳州共和党人此前正推动推出一份新的选区地图，这可能会让该州7名联邦众议院代表团中唯一的民主党众议员吉姆·克莱伯恩丢了饭碗。
克莱伯恩本周早些时候仍对自己能够成功连任持乐观态度。
“我不知道为什么有人觉得，如果南卡罗来纳州重划选区，我就不能连任了，”克莱伯恩在接受美国有线电视新闻网采访时说道，“我的选区目前有约45%的非裔选民。我不清楚州议会完成重划后这个比例会是多少，但无论比例如何，我都会凭借我的政绩和美国的承诺参选。”
阿拉巴马州共和党人推进重划选区计划
南卡罗来纳州民主党众议员吉姆·克莱伯恩，2024年8月19日在芝加哥联合中心举行的2024年民主党全国代表大会上发言。(比尔·克拉克/CQ-滚呼通讯社/Getty Images)
特朗普周一晚间在社交媒体上发文敦促“南卡罗来纳州的共和党人们：大胆果敢些。”
“将联邦众议院初选推迟到8月，其余选举按原日程进行。一切都会顺利的。赶紧搞定！”他强调道。
就在特朗普发布这条消息的一周前，印第安纳州五名共和党州参议员在12月帮助搁置了这个坚定红州的国会选区重划工作，随后他们在特朗普支持的挑战者发起的共和党初选中被罢免。
南卡罗来纳州参议院共和党多数党领袖沙恩·梅西在议会发言中辩称，追随特朗普的选区重划路线不符合“棕榈州”（南卡罗来纳州别称）的利益。
“南卡罗来纳州向来做事超出自身体量，”梅西说道，“这么做会削弱我们的影响力。”
南卡罗来纳州参议院共和党多数党领袖沙恩·梅西2026年5月12日周二在南卡罗来纳州哥伦比亚市就选区重划进行辩论时发言。(杰弗里·柯林斯/美联社照片)
但他也承认，自己可能会面临来自特朗普及其盟友的政治报复。
“我现在所持的立场，个人可能会面临相应后果，”梅西说道，“我对此已经做好了心理准备。我可能不喜欢这种局面，但我能坦然接受……在这件事上，我的问心无愧。”
其他南卡罗来纳州共和党人也担忧，拆分克莱伯恩所在的选区可能会在中期选举中对本党适得其反。
该州今年州长竞选的四大共和党候选人——副州长帕姆·埃维特、总检察长艾伦·威尔逊、以及众议员南希·梅斯和拉尔夫·诺曼——都批评州议会未能采取行动，埃维特将此描述为“对南卡罗来纳州人民的背叛”，并“直接违抗”了特朗普的要求。
现任州长、特朗普核心盟友亨利·麦克马斯特仍可召集州议会召开特别会议，试图推动选区重划，但截至目前，其办公室表示这种情况不太可能发生。
今日各州初选的关键议题
共和党主导的田纳西州州议会周四迅速通过了一份新的选区地图，该地图将取消该州唯一由民主党掌控的国会选区，可能让共和党拿下全部9个联邦众议院席位。
共和党州长比尔·李迅速签署了新地图，使其正式生效。
代表该多数黑人选区的民主党众议员史蒂夫·科恩发誓将提起法律诉讼。
“特朗普心知肚明，他必须操纵选举进程，才能在11月保住众议院多数席位。而田纳西州的共和党人愿意配合这种做法。这太可耻了，”科恩在社交媒体上写道，“下一步就是法庭见。”
特朗普在社交媒体上称赞了田纳西州的共和党人，并敦促南卡罗来纳州的共和党议员们“就像上周伟大的田纳西州的共和党人们那样行动”。
总统唐纳德·特朗普敦促共和党控制的各州赶在今年中期选举前重划国会选区地图。(查理·尼博加尔/美联社)
阿拉巴马州的情况又回到了原点：最高法院以6票对3票的意识形态分歧裁决，为该州采用2023年共和党起草的、此前被下级法院否决的地图扫清了道路。该地图将取消该州两个倾向民主党的国会席位之一。
共和党州长凯·艾维周二宣布，将在8月份为新地图调整后的4个联邦众议院选区举行特别初选。
上周，最高法院宣布其认定路易斯安那州选区地图违宪的判决立即生效。
这为共和党控制的州议会启动重划选区程序扫清了障碍，相关听证会已于周五启动。
特朗普核心盟友、共和党州长杰夫·兰德里在最高法院做出裁决后迅速采取行动，推迟了原定于5月16日举行的路易斯安那州联邦众议院初选。
路易斯安那州共和党人旨在取消一个或两个由民主党人代表的非裔占多数的众议院席位。
重磅最高法院投票权判决点燃南部各州选区重划战火
佛罗里达州共和党州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯签署了一份新的国会选区地图法案，该法案可能新增至多4个倾向共和党的联邦众议院席位。(马蒂亚斯·J·奥克纳/迈阿密先驱报/论坛新闻服务)
在佛罗里达州，共和党州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯上周签署了一项由共和党主导的州议会通过的法案，全面 overhaul 该州倾向共和党的国会选区地图，通过取消目前由民主党掌控的选区，新增4个更倾向共和党的席位。
目前共和党在佛罗里达州联邦众议院代表团中占据20席对8席的优势。
民主党人正在反击。
周一，民主党人向美国最高法院提起紧急上诉，试图阻止弗吉尼亚州最高法院的一项裁决。该裁决宣布一项旨在为民主党新增4个倾向左翼的联邦众议院席位的投票措施无效。
弗吉尼亚州上周的裁决意味着2024年选举使用的选区地图将继续适用于2026年的选举对决。目前民主党在该州联邦众议院代表团中以6席对5席占据微弱优势。此前被推翻的地图本可能让民主党在这个倾向蓝色但竞争激烈的州取得10席对1席的优势。
我们是如何走到这一步的
这场选区地图之争于去年春天爆发，当时特朗普为了避免其第一任总统任期内2018年中期选举民主党重夺众议院多数席位的情况重演，首次提出了中期国会选区重划的想法——这种做法虽罕见但并非闻所未闻。
其目标很简单：在共和党控制的州重划国会选区地图，以扩大共和党脆弱的众议院多数席位优势，保住该党在中期选举中的控制权——因为在野党通常会在中期选举中获得政治逆风，丢失席位。
去年夏天，当被记者问及在全国范围内新增倾向共和党众议院席位的计划时，总统说道：“得克萨斯州将是最大的行动。届时将增加5个席位。”
得克萨斯州共和党州长格雷格·阿博特召集共和党主导的州议会召开特别会议，以通过新的选区地图。
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但民主党州议员为了阻挠重划选区法案的通过，连续两周缺席议会会议以破坏法定人数，此举鼓舞了全美各地的民主党人。领导反对特朗普重划选区行动的人士包括加利福尼亚州民主党州长加文·纽瑟姆。
去年11月，加利福尼亚州选民压倒性通过了50号提案，该投票倡议暂时搁置了该州左翼倾向的无党派选区重划委员会，将绘制国会选区地图的权力交还给民主党主导的州议会。
这为加利福尼亚州新增了5个更倾向民主党的国会选区，旨在抵消得克萨斯州重划选区计划带来的影响。
加利福尼亚州州长加文·纽瑟姆2025年11月4日在萨克拉门托的加利福尼亚民主党总部举行的选举之夜新闻发布会上发言。(戈多弗雷多·A·巴斯克斯/美联社照片)
但这场斗争很快蔓延到了得克萨斯州和加利福尼亚州之外。
共和党控制的密苏里州和俄亥俄州，以及共和党主导州议会的摇摆州北卡罗来纳州，都按照总统的推动制定了新的选区地图。
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但也有让共和党受挫的消息：犹他州一名地区法官去年年底否决了该州共和党主导的州议会起草的国会选区地图，转而批准了一份备选方案，该方案将在中期选举前创建一个倾向民主党的选区。
正如前文所述，印第安纳州参议院的共和党人去年12月违抗特朗普，否决了该州众议院通过的重划选区法案。
保罗·施坦豪泽是常驻摇摆州新罕布什尔州的政治记者，他全程报道全美各地的竞选活动。
South Carolina Republicans defy Trump, tank redistricting, for now
2026-05-12T20:25:43-04:00 / Fox News
Trump warned he was ‘watching closely’ as South Carolina Republicans voted on redistricting
By Paul Steinhauser, Charles Creitz Fox News
Published May 12, 2026 8:25pm EDT
Former Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares explains why the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the Democratic redistricting map was a “win for the rule of law.” Miyares notes the proposed map would have drastically shifted power for Democrats, citing the court’s emphasis on adhering to the state’s constitutional amendment process.
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A handful of Republican state senators in South Carolina on Tuesday derailed an effort in the GOP-dominated legislature to redraw their state’s congressional district map which aims to erase the only Democrat-dominated U.S. House seat ahead of the midterm elections.
Five Republican state senators broke with their party and teamed up with Democrats to defeat a proposal that would have allowed the chamber to vote on redistricting after the South Carolina legislative session comes to a close later this week.
The move came hours after President Donald Trump warned on social media that he’d be “watching closely” as lawmakers met to move forward with changing their state’s map.
The setback means it will be much harder for South Carolina to join Tennessee, Alabama and Louisiana, which are altering their maps to eliminate Democrat-controlled congressional districts in time for the midterms, when the GOP will be defending its razor-thin House majority. The southern states are the latest battleground in the nationwide redistricting showdown. At stake is which party will control the House during the final two years of Trump’s second term in the White House.
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The South Carolina Statehouse, in Columbia, S.C.(Getty Images)
The efforts by Republicans in the southern states come in the wake of a decision by the conservative majority on the Supreme Court to slash a key protection in the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act. The justices ruled that race should not dictate the redrawing of legislative district maps.
South Carolina Republicans were trying to advance a new map that could put longtime Rep.Jim Clyburn, the only Democrat in the state’s seven-person House delegation, out of a job.
Clyburn this past week remained optimistic he can still win re-election.
“I don’t know why people think I could not get re-elected if they redistrict South Carolina,” Clyburn said in a CNN interview. “I have a district that’s about 45 percent African-American. I have no idea what the number will be after the legislature finishes, but whatever that number is, I will be running on my record and America’s promise.”
ALABAMA REPUBLICANS PLOW FORWARD ON REDISTRICTING
Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., speaks during the 2024 Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago on Aug. 19, 2024.(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty Images)
Trump, in a social media post Monday night, urged “South Carolina Republicans: BE BOLD AND COURAGEOUS.”
“Move the U.S. House Primaries to August, leave the rest on the same schedule. Everything will be fine. GET IT DONE!” he emphasized.
Trump’s message came a week after five Indiana Republican state senators who in December helped sink congressional redistricting in the solidly red Midwestern state were ousted by Trump-backed challengers in GOP primaries.
Shane Massey, the South Carolina Senate’s Republican majority leader, argued in a floor speech that following Trump’s lead on redistricting would be against the interests of the Palmetto State.
“South Carolina has always punched above their weight,” Massey said. “Doing this will diminish that influence.”
Republican South Carolina Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey speaks during a debate on redistricting on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in Columbia, S.C.(Jeffrey Collins/AP Photo)
But he also acknowledged that he will likely face political payback from Trump and the president’s allies.
“There are likely consequences for me, personally, taking the position that I am right now,” Massey said. “I’m comfortable with that. I may not like it, but I’m comfortable with it…My conscience is clear on this one.”
Other South Carolina Republicans had raised concerns that carving up the district represented by Clyburn could backfire on their party in the midterms.
The top four Republicans running for governor this year, Lt. Gov. Pam Evette, Attorney Gen. Alan Wilson, and Reps. Nancy Mace and Ralph Norman all criticized the lack of legislative action, with Evette describing it as “a betrayal of the people of South Carolina” and in “direct defiance” of Trump.
The current governor, Republican Henry McMaster, a top Trump ally, could still call the legislature back into special session to try and push through redistricting, but his office has so far said that scenario is unlikely.
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The GOP-dominated Tennessee legislature on Thursday quickly adopted a new map that would eliminate the only Democrat-controlled congressional district in the state, and would likely give Republicans control of all nine districts.
GOP Gov. Bill Lee quickly signed the new maps into law.
Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen, who represents the majority Black district that’s being carved up, vowed legal action.
“Trump knows he HAS TO rig the game to keep his majority in November. And the TN GOP was willing to go along with it. It’s shameful,” Cohen wrote on social media. “Next stop is the courts.”
Trump praised Tennessee Republicans in his social media post and urged GOP lawmakers in South Carolina to act “just like the Republicans of the Great State of Tennessee were last week.”
President Donald Trump has urged Republican-controlled states to redraw their congressional district maps in time for this year’s midterm elections.(Charlie Neibergall/AP)
It’s back to the future in Alabama, after the Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ideological ruling, cleared the way for the state to put in place a map Republicans drew up in 2023 that had been blocked by lower courts. The map would eliminate one of the state’s two blue-leaning congressional seats.
GOP Gov. Kay Ivey on Tuesday called for a special primary election in August in the four U.S. House districts altered by the new map.
Last week, the Supreme Court said that its decision declaring Louisiana’s map unconstitutional should go into effect immediately.
That cleared the way for the GOP-controlled state legislature to begin the process of reshaping the map, and hearings got underway on Friday.
Republican Gov. Jeff Landry, a top Trump ally, took swift action in the immediate aftermath of the high court’s ruling, when he delayed the May 16 U.S. House primary elections in Louisiana.
Louisiana Republicans are aiming to erase one or both of the two Black-majority House seats, which are represented by Democrats.
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Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida signed into law a new congressional district map that may create up to four more right-leaning U.S. House seats(Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service)
In Florida, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis last week signed a bill by the GOP-dominated state legislature that overhauls the red-leaning state’s congressional districts, adding four more right-leaning seats by eliminating districts currently controlled by Democrats.
Republicans currently control Florida’s U.S. House delegation by a 20-8 margin.
Democrats are fighting back.
On Monday, Democrats filed an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to halt a Virginia state Supreme Court ruling invalidating a ballot measure that would have given their party an additional four left-leaning U.S. House seats.
Last week’s ruling in Virginia means the map used in the 2024 elections will stay in place for the 2026 ballot box showdowns. Democrats currently control the state’s U.S. House delegation by a 6-5 margin. The now overturned map could have resulted in a 10-1 advantage for Democrats in the blue-leaning but competitive state.
How we got here
The battle over the maps ignited last spring when Trump, aiming to prevent what happened during his first term in the White House when Democrats reclaimed the House majority in the 2018 midterms, first floated the idea of rare, but not unheard of, mid-decade congressional redistricting.
The mission was simple: redraw congressional district maps in red states to pad the GOP’s fragile House majority to keep control of the chamber in the midterms, when the party in power traditionally faces political headwinds and loses seats.
When asked by reporters last summer about his plan to add Republican-leaning House seats across the country, the president said, “Texas will be the biggest one. And that’ll be five.”
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas called a special session of the GOP-dominated state legislature to pass the new map.
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But Democratic state lawmakers, who broke quorum for two weeks as they fled Texas in a bid to delay the passage of the redistricting bill, energized Democrats across the country. Among those leading the fight against Trump’s redistricting was Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California.
California voters in November overwhelmingly passed Proposition 50, a ballot initiative that temporarily sidetracked the left-leaning state’s nonpartisan redistricting commission and returned the power to draw the congressional maps to the Democratic-dominated legislature.
That led to five more Democratic-leaning congressional districts in California, which aimed to counter the move by Texas to redraw their maps.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during an election night press conference at a California Democratic Party office in Sacramento on Nov. 4, 2025.(Godofredo A. Vásquez/AP Photo)
But the fight quickly spread beyond Texas and California.
Republican-controlled Missouri and Ohio and swing state North Carolina, where the GOP dominates the legislature, drew new maps as part of the president’s push.
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But in blows to Republicans, a Utah district judge late last year rejected a congressional district map drawn by the state’s GOP-dominated legislature and instead approved an alternate that will create a Democratic-leaning district ahead of the midterms.
And as mentioned, Republicans in Indiana’s Senate in December defied Trump, shooting down a redistricting bill that had passed the state House.
Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in the swing state of New Hampshire. He covers the campaign trail from coast to coast.