The Ping-Pong state US House Seats thing goes on….
(I still think the Democrats ARE gonna regain a US House majority off of Trump & Co. economic actions)
North Carolina…
North Carolina Republicans will introduce a redrawn Congressional map next week with the intention of giving them an electoral advantage in 11 of the state’s 14 U.S. House districts.
Right now, Republicans are strongly favored in 10 seats and Democrats in three. There is one swing district, in northeastern North Carolina, currently held by Rep. Don Davis, a Democrat.
North Carolina House and Senate leaders announced the intention to redraw the map Monday. Leadership plans to have the General Assembly vote on the new plan when the General Assembly returns to Raleigh next Tuesday.
“We are doing everything we can to protect President Trump’s agenda, which means safeguarding Republican control of Congress,” Senate Leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, wrote in a statement.
Berger and other legislative leaders pointed to California’s referendum this November on a map that would give Democrats the advantage in five additional House seats, a plan that itself was in response to new Texas maps giving Republicans a boost in five seats….
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Virginia…
“The next front in the nation’s pitched battle over mid-decade congressional redistricting is opening in Virginia, where Democrats are planning the first step toward redrawing congressional maps, a move that could give their party two or three more seats,” the New York Times reports.
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