Texas Republicans have launched efforts to redraw congressional maps to secure more GOP seats in the U.S. House.

Plaintiffs who challenged the map said it reduced Black voting power by dismantling a North Florida seat held by former U.S. Rep. Al Lawson. DeSantis said the long district, which stretched across the panhandle, relied too much on race.

The maps achieve a five-seat swing largely by shaving slivers of Republican strongholds from ruby red districts and placing them inside three urban districts.