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President Donald Trump celebrated Louisiana Republican Gov. Jeff Landry’s efforts to fight back against Democrats’ efforts to draw out Republican seats nationwide, taking measures of his own.
Landry suspended Louisiana’s House primaries until at least July following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling narrowing Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which could eliminate numerous Democrat-held House seats drawn as racial gerrymanders, RSBN reported.
“Thank you to the Great Governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, for his leadership on the very important Callais case, and for moving so quickly to fix the Unconstitutionality of Louisiana’s Congressional Maps,” President Trump wrote Thursday in a post to Truth Social.
He added, “[Landry] has shown tremendous Vision, Strength, and Leadership. Thank you Jeff, keep up the GREAT work!”
The rescheduling will only impact the state’s House races and runoff elections, with the Senate and state Supreme Court races continuing as planned on May 16.
A 6-3 decision, several southern states, including Louisiana, have since made efforts to eliminate some of these seats.
Florida lawmakers previously passed redrawn congressional lines on Wednesday. If formally adopted, this would likely create four more Republican-leaning seats, NBC News reported.
Tennessee lawmakers are also weighing proposals to redraw the state’s final Democrat-held congressional district, located in Nashville. Alabama, Mississippi, and South Carolina may also draw out their Democratic seats.
Louisiana redrew its maps in 2024 after a lower court ruled that the state’s previous maps violated the Voting Rights Act by not having a second Black-majority district.
With Landry suspending the state’s primaries to reevaluate the state’s map, Louisiana could draw one of its two Democratic-held congressional seats—or even both.