The media hysteria over the Alito & Co. Supreme’s gutting the Voting Rights Law is probably over hyped…
Not EVERY Red State has gonna redraw their House districts …
And?
If forced to?
Blue states could also do so….
Doing these things take time and money and we’ll see if Republicans want to do such actions across the board….
In addtion?
Donald Trump is NOT getting any popular now, and won’t be for the next 6 months and THAT along with rising gas prices probably will negate any gains Republican’s might think they can scrape up….
The affects could be felt more in the 2028 General Election by both parties….
Georgia Governor won’t redraw state House Maps…..
Gov. Brian Kemp made clear Friday he won’t cancel Georgia’s May 19 primary or rush to impose new political maps on this year’s elections after the U.S. Supreme Court weakened a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act.
But Kemp also signaled he could still call lawmakers back to Atlanta to redraw Georgia’s congressional and legislative boundaries. The difference: Any new maps would be aimed at the 2028 elections, not the 2026 midterms already underway….
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Republican’s House seat redistricting pickups would probaly be a small number for November 2026 midterms….Cook and Sabato….
Both Cook Political Report and Sabato’s Crystal Ball, which is published by the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said the court’s ruling — which deemed Louisiana’s current map an illegal racial gerrymander and ordered it be redrawn — could ultimately jeopardize all of the Democratic seats in Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and South Carolina.
They said it’s unclear, however, whether those effects would play out ahead of the November midterms, noting some states would be required to move candidate filing deadlines and perhaps even primary dates.
“A new map by the GOP legislature is almost certain to result in at least one Republican pickup, though it’s unclear whether that can occur in time for the 2026 election,” Amy Walter and Matthew Klein wrote in the Cook Political Report analysis. “There are still a lot of unanswered questions swirling around this decision, especially its impact on the 2026 midterm election.”
“The decision may or may not have a major, immediate impact on 2026, but its ripple effects will be felt more deeply in subsequent elections,” Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, said in his analysis….
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“Everyone wants to know what impact this will have on 2026,” he wrote. “The reality is that it’s hazy — we will have to see how states actually react to the decision.”….
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