Democrats plan to redistrict New York state after Republicans attempted to redraw Texas’s congressional districts to make them more favourable to Donald Trump. Kathy Hochul, the New York governor, said the US president and his “coconspirator”,

Governor Kathy Hochul of New York met with Texas Democrats in Albany to discuss opposition to a contentious GOP-favored redistricting plan in Texas that could add five Republican seats.

New York’s constitution now places a bipartisan Independent Redistricting Commission in charge of drawing districts for the U.S. House as well as the state Assembly and Senate. Legislators take over if the panel deadlocks, and all lines are subject to constitutional language prohibiting gerrymandering that Hochul said she would consider changing.