From the Dallas Morning News:
“The fact is, we could end up adding more, given the dynamic on the ground,” said RSLC chairman Ed Gillespie, the former George W. Bush adviser and national GOP chairman. He and vice chairman Tom Reynolds , former head of the party’s House campaign arm (Dallas Rep. Pete Sessions is that committee’s current chairman) released a status report this morning on their Redistricting Majority Project (or REDMAP).
As for the Texas House, that was one of four chambers across the country that Democrats had hoped to win back this November, and REDMAP strategists say the Democrats’ no longer have that within reach.
REDMAP executive director Chris Jankowski ticked off four chambers viewed at risk earlier this year – the state Houses in Texas and Tennessee, and the Senates in Michigan and Kentucky. “We are firmly convinced… that those four state chambers that are Republican controlled — that were the only four that could arguably have been said to be in play this spring — are safe Republican,” he said on a conference call with reporters.