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All eyes are on Florida next week, as it is likely the final battleground in the high-stakes fight between President Donald Trump and Republicans versus Democrats over congressional redistricting.

A special session of the Florida legislature, called earlier this year by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to redraw the right-leaning state’s U.S. House districts, kicks off on Tuesday.

At stake is which party will control the House of Representatives during the final two years of Trump’s second term in the White House.

Republicans and Democrats over the past nine months have been redrawing the House district maps in states they control to gain partisan advantages heading into this year’s midterm elections, when the GOP will be defending its razor-thin congressional majority.

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Lawmakers in the GOP-dominated Florida legislature are meeting one week after voters in Virginia narrowly passed a referendum that, if it clears legal hurdles, will give the state’s Democratic-controlled legislature — rather than the current nonpartisan commission — temporary redistricting power through the 2030 election. It could result in a 10-1 advantage for Democrats in Virginia’s congressional delegation, up from their current 6-5 edge.

The vote in Virginia put more pressure on DeSantis to deliver a new map in Florida that could create between three and five more right-leaning congressional districts.

«Florida has the right and the intention to do it. And my view is that they should,» House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters on Wednesday when asked if Florida’s maps should be redrawn in time for the midterms.

A Florida-based Republican in the governor’s wider political circle who asked for anonymity to speak more freely told Fox News Digital, «Gov. DeSantis is under tremendous pressure to deliver an answer to Virginia for Trump and Speaker Johnson.»

But that source added that despite pressure from the president’s political team, the map DeSantis may unveil on Monday on the eve of the special legislative session will likely aim for three rather than five additional right-leaning districts.

The road ahead for DeSantis is not easy: the governor already pushed through a new House map four years ago, which helped secure the GOP’s current 20-8 majority in Florida’s U.S. House delegation. Redrawing the map again just four years later is harder.

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Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida speaks during a press conference in Miami, Fla., on April 10, 2025. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

There are also legal hurdles DeSantis faces: It is illegal under Florida’s constitution to redraw maps for partisan gain, known as gerrymandering. Democrats have vowed lawsuits against any new map that may come out of Tallahassee.

U.S. House Democratic leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries last week took aim at what some are dubbing «dummymander,» a play on words for «gerrymander,» and argued that redrawing the maps in Florida — where the GOP suffered setbacks earlier this spring in special legislative elections — would harm Republican members of Congress.

«Our message to Florida Republicans is, ‘F around and find out,’» Jeffries told reporters as he referenced next week’s redistricting legislative session. Jeffries said the redistricting move would lead Democrats to increase their target list of vulnerable Florida House Republicans.

He warned DeSantis and Republicans that «the electoral tide is turning in Florida.»

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Pushing back, DeSantis said, «Please. Be my guest. I will pay for you to come down to Florida to campaign.»

«I’ll put you up in the Florida governor’s mansion. We will take you fishing,» the governor added.

DeSantis has argued that the last U.S. Census was full of flaws and claimed that it robbed Florida of an extra congressional seat. And the governor has also pointed to the major influx of new residents this decade who moved to Florida from other states in the wake of the COVID pandemic.

Not all Florida Republicans are on board with the effort, due to concerns it may backfire.

A Florida-based GOP strategist told Fox News Digital some Florida members of Congress «don’t want this.»

And pointing to the legislature, where there are some grumblings, the strategist, who asked to remain anonymous to speak clearly, said «some don’t want to do it, but their hands will be forced.»

The Florida Capitol building in Tallahassee, home to the state legislature, is shown in this image. (Stephen M. Dowell/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service)

Florida has already moved the filing deadline for congressional candidates back from April to June, but for candidates already running for Congress, the late-in-the-game map redraw brings plenty of complications.

«Changing the map changes the race. Candidates have been interviewed for a job description that just got a requirement change,» veteran Florida-based GOP donor and bundler Dan Eberhart told Fox News Digital.

Eberhart noted that «these candidates are going to have to call an audible really soon – changing districts and probably new competitors.»

Florida may be the final battlefield in a political war that started a year ago.

Aiming to prevent what happened during his first term in the White House when Democrats reclaimed the House majority in the 2018 midterms, Trump last spring first floated the idea of rare, but not unheard of, mid-decade congressional redistricting.

The mission was simple: redraw congressional district maps in red states to pad the GOP’s fragile House majority to keep control of the chamber in the midterms, when the party in power traditionally faces political headwinds and loses seats.

President Donald Trump, seen at an event in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, April 23, 2026, has urged GOP-controlled states to redraw their congressional district maps. (Will Oliver/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

When asked by reporters last summer about his plan to add Republican-leaning House seats across the country, the president said, «Texas will be the biggest one. And that’ll be five.»

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas called a special session of the GOP-dominated state legislature to pass the new map.

But Democratic state lawmakers, who broke quorum for two weeks as they fled Texas in a bid to delay the passage of the redistricting bill, energized Democrats across the country.

Among those leading the fight against Trump’s redistricting was Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California.

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California voters in November overwhelmingly passed Proposition 50, a ballot initiative that temporarily sidetracked the left-leaning state’s nonpartisan redistricting commission and returned the power to draw the congressional maps to the Democratic-dominated legislature.

That is expected to result in five more Democratic-leaning congressional districts in California, which aimed to counter the move by Texas to redraw their maps.

The fight quickly spread beyond Texas and California.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during an election night press conference at a California Democratic Party office in Sacramento on Nov. 4, 2025. (Godofredo A. Vásquez/AP Photo)

Republican-controlled Missouri and Ohio and swing state North Carolina, where the GOP dominates the legislature, have drawn new maps as part of the president’s push.

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In blows to Republicans, a Utah district judge late last year rejected a congressional district map drawn by the state’s GOP-dominated legislature and instead approved an alternate that will create a Democratic-leaning district ahead of the midterms.

Republicans in Indiana’s Senate in December defied Trump, shooting down a redistricting bill that had passed the state House. The showdown in the Indiana statehouse grabbed plenty of national attention.

Ernie Dosio, un empresario millonario y figura del mundo de la caza mayor, murió pisoteado por una manada de elefantes mientras participaba de una caza de antílopes en un bosque de Gabón, en África.

El hecho ocurrió el viernes pasado en el corazón del parque Lope-Okanda, cuando Dosio, de 75 años, se encontraba junto a un guía profesional en busca del escurridizo antílope duiker de lomo amarillo. La expedición, valuada en unos 40.000 dólares, terminó en tragedia cuando ambos sorprendieron a cinco elefantas con una cría, ocultas entre la densa vegetación.

Un ataque fulminante en la espesura de la selva

Según contaron testigos, la manada reaccionó de inmediato y embistió a los dos hombres. El guía, armado con un rifle de alto calibre, resultó gravemente herido y perdió su arma. El millonario, en tanto, fue brutalmente pisoteado por los animales.

“Ernie cazaba desde chico y tenía muchísimos trofeos de África y Estados Unidos”, contó un cazador retirado de Ciudad del Cabo que lo conocía bien.

“Aunque muchos no estén de acuerdo con la caza mayor, todas sus expediciones estaban habilitadas y bajo estrictos controles de conservación”, agregó.

La empresa de safaris Collect Africa confirmó la muerte de su cliente en un comunicado breve, donde detalló que el accidente ocurrió durante una cacería en el centro de Gabón y que el caso está siendo gestionado por la embajada de Estados Unidos y la familia Dosio.

Un personaje polémico y querido en su comunidad

Ernie Dosio era dueño de Pacific AgriLands, una empresa con un viñedo de 5.000 hectareas en Modesto, California, y era una figura clave en la industria vitivinícola local. Vivía en las afueras de Lodi junto a su pareja Betty y era padre de dos hijos, Jeff y Blake, quienes continúan al frente del negocio familiar.

Además de su faceta empresarial, Dosio era un referente en clubes de caza y organizaciones benéficas: integraba el Sacramento Safari Club, era miembro vitalicio de California Wildfowl y formaba parte de la comisión directiva de la Lodi Winegrape Commission. También ocupaba el cargo de “Great Elk” en la organización filantrópica Elks, que agrupa a casi un millón de miembros en todo Estados Unidos y realiza acciones solidarias para veteranos, jóvenes y personas en situación vulnerable.

“Ernie siempre ayudaba a quien lo necesitara, fuera un veterano de guerra o un chico con discapacidad”, escribió Tommy Whitman, secretario de la logia local, en un mensaje de despedida. “Era un pilar de la comunidad y será muy extrañado”.

Una vida dedicada a la caza y la filantropía

En su casa, Dosio tenía varias salas repletas de trofeos: cabezas de elefante, rinoceronte, león, búfalo, ciervos y aves de todo tipo. Organizó durante años eventos de caridad en su propiedad, donde reunía a empresarios, jueces y referentes del sector vitivinícola para recaudar fondos destinados a obras sociales.

“Era un tipo sencillo, de campo, que amaba la caza y la pesca”, recordó un amigo de la familia. “La noticia de su muerte fue como una bomba acá. Dicen que los elefantes salieron de la nada. Seguro tendrá una despedida enorme”.

El debate sobre la caza mayor y los riesgos del safari

La muerte de Dosio reavivó la discusión sobre la caza de trofeos en África, una práctica que genera fuertes controversias a nivel mundial.

En Gabón, donde el 88% del territorio es selva y habitan cerca del 60% de los elefantes de bosque del planeta, las expediciones de caza están reguladas bajo estrictas licencias y suelen justificarse como parte de programas de conservación.

No es el primer caso de un cazador estadounidense que muere en circunstancias similares: en agosto del año pasado, Asher Watkins, otro millonario, fue embestido por un búfalo en Sudáfrica. Y en 2015, la muerte del león Cecil a manos de un dentista de Minnesota desató una ola de indignación global.

Mientras la familia Dosio espera la repatriación del cuerpo, la polémica sobre la caza mayor y el turismo de trofeos vuelve a estar en el centro de la escena.