'Fight fire with fire': Trump's niece says GOP crumbled after trying to 'steal' midterms

Mary Trump, Donald Trump's niece, believes the GOP tried and failed to "steal" the midterms ahead of the elections next year.

Speaking in a video uploaded to her YouTube channel, Mary Trump praised California for being the "epicentre" of anti-Trump sentiment and ripped into the Republican Party for their attempt at changing voter boundaries ahead of the midterms. Some "increasingly frantic" behaviour from Trump is a sign the president may be worried about the resistance to his administration, Mary Trump claims.

She said, "In many ways, California has become the epicentre of this country's resistance to Donald and the Trump regime's agenda. Judging by Donald's increasingly frantic behaviour, he's been paying close attention to the way California's governor Gavin Newsom has been attacking him and he's furious about it."

But a crucial issue could have pushed Trump into further fury as Mary Trump believes the redistricting fails of the GOP are a sign they were trying to "steal" the midterm election.

The state's "willingness to fight fire with fire" is crucial, according to Mary Trump, in pushing back on the Republican Party's redistricting plans. The GOP had already tried to redistrict parts of Texas, a move which was rejected 2-1 by a panel earlier this month.

Mary Trump said, "Then there's the state's willingness to fight fire with fire, when it comes to the Republican's unconstitutional attempt to steal the 2026 elections in advance by redistricting Democratic National Congressional seats out of existence."

Proposition 50, also known as the Election Rigging Response Act, was passed overwhelmingly earlier this year by California to offset gerrymandering carried out by the Republican party in Texas.

The amendment to the California State Constitution was passed by voters at a special election ballot, with 64.41% of voters saying yes to the redistricting, while 35.59% voted no.

A federal court last week prevented the redistricting of Texas, with the three-judge panel throwing out the newly drawn map ahead of the 2026 midterms. U.S. Judge Jeffrey Brown, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, said, "The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics.

"To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 Map. But it was much more than just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map."