Trump urges Republicans to 'BE BOLD' as red states push to rewrite congressional maps

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President Donald Trump says he'll be "watching closely" as lawmakers in the Republican-dominated South Carolina legislature on Tuesday begin redrawing their state's congressional district map to erase the only Democrat-dominated U.S. House seat. At the same time, Republican officials in solidly red Alabama are moving forward with a redrawn congressional map that would likely eliminate one of the state's two Democratic-held U.S. House seats in time for this autumn's midterm elections, when the GOP will be defending its razor-thin congressional majority. This week's moves in Alabama and South Carolina, along with similar efforts in Louisiana and Tennessee, come two weeks after a ruling by the conservative majority on the Supreme Court to slash a key Voting Rights Act protection. And they're giving Trump and the GOP a major boost in their ongoing political fight with Democrats to redraw congressional district maps ahead of the midterms. At stake in this nationwide redistricting showdown is which party will control the House during the final two years of Trump's second term in the White House. DEMOCRACY ’26: STAY UP TO DATE WITH THE FOX NEWS ELECTION HUB In South Carolina , the state Senate is expected to vote Tuesday on whether to agree with the state House to take up rare but not unheard of mid-decade redistricting. State lawmakers would also need to push back South Carolina's U.S. House primaries from early next month to August. Early voting in the state's primary is scheduled to kick off in two weeks. South Carolina Republicans are likely 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 w…