Et Tu, Mississippi? Another Red State Now Plans Redistricting at 'Earliest Opportunity'

Begun, the redistricting wars have.

On Wednesday, we learned that yet another red state, Mississippi, may be opening the door towards redistricting in the wake of the Supreme Court's recent decision on race-based gerrymandering. Governor Tate Reeves himself made the announcement in an exclusive interview with the Daily Caller.

🚨SCOOP: Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves is opening the door to redrawing several of his state’s electoral maps after the Supreme Court handed Republicans a major win against race-based redistricting.

Reeves told the Daily Caller in an exclusive interview Wednesday that… pic.twitter.com/CvLvxCYeNS
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) May 6, 2026

The X post reads in full:

SCOOP: Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves is opening the door to redrawing several of his state’s electoral maps after the Supreme Court handed Republicans a major win against race-based redistricting.
Reeves told the Daily Caller in an exclusive interview Wednesday that Mississippi lawmakers are already preparing for a special session focused on the state’s Supreme Court districts, but said he has the authority to expand that call to include other redistricting matters — potentially including its congressional and state legislative maps.

The full article at the Daily Caller has more:

Mississippi, Reeves said, now has three separate redistricting fights in play.
“We have Supreme Court districts, we have congressional districts – which is what everybody in Washington, D.C., cares about — and then we have legislative districts,” Reeves said.
The most immediate issue is Mississippi’s state Supreme Court map. A federal judge ruled last year that Mississippi’s three Supreme Court districts violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, triggering a remedial phase that could force lawmakers to redraw the districts.
“My initial call for a special session … was specifically for Supreme Court redistricting in the event that the federal judge forced our legislature to redraw those districts,” Reeves said.

That doesn't necessarily have to do with redrawing Congressional districts, but it may expand to include that:

But the governor made clear that the special session may not stop there.
“I have the ability as governor, constitutionally, to either remove that call of the special session or to add to it for the purposes of any other topic, which could include other redistricting matters,” Reeves explained.
That means Mississippi could join other Republican-led states reassessing their maps after Callais. Reeves specifically pointed to Mississippi’s congressional map, which includes one majority-minority district currently represented by Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson.

It's unclear whether this could happen before this year's midterms, but we'll take the win, whenever it happens.

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Redistricting has been the Republicans not-so-secret weapon in this midterm year. Oh, the Democrats are doing it, too, most notably California and Virginia. But Virginia apparently didn't follow their own rules, and so the Democrat-dominated redistricting is, for the moment, stymied - and California is bleeding population so fast, and the remaining voters are dealing with the highest prices for housing, gasoline and almost everything else, so that if there's a year to flip the once-Golden State red, this would be it.

Here's why I'm kind of optimistic about this tactic: As with so many things, when Republicans and Democrats try to use the same tactic or method, the Republicans usually win. Why? Because when we put our minds to it, we're just better than Democrats at, well, almost everything.

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