South Carolina state senators voted 29-17 on Tuesday to reject a Republican plan to redraw the state's congressional map, two votes short of the two-thirds majority needed to advance the proposal and a public rebuff of pressure from 
Donald Trump. Five Republicans joined every Democrat in the chamber to block the measure, the Guardian reported, and Missouri's supreme court the same day upheld a separate Trump-backed map that could help Republicans win an additional House seat in the November midterm elections.
State senate majority leader Shane Massey, in floor remarks reported by the Guardian, told colleagues that "there are likely consequences for me, personally, taking the position that I am right now," and said he was comfortable with that. The day before the vote Trump had written on social media that he would be "watching closely" and urged senators to "GET IT DONE!"
The two Tuesday outcomes are part of a 10-month national redistricting fight that intensified after a US Supreme Court ruling weakened the Voting Rights Act, PBS reported. Tennessee's legislature moved last week to eliminate its sole Democratic, Black-majority district, and Alabama's Republican governor announced an August 11 special primary after the Supreme Court overturned an order requiring use of a map with two Black-majority districts. Republicans estimate they could gain as many as 14 seats from new maps enacted so far in Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Florida and Tennessee; Democrats put their potential gains in California and Utah at six.
Figures referenced: Donald Trump. — JudgeMarket.
