A fight that Alito’s crew and other Republivans THOUGFT would work for thie team did NOT do a DAMN thing with their hero Donald screwing things up….
Democracy posts a WIN in the end…..
Thank You …..
President Donald Trump went all-in on an unprecedented mid-decade redistricting push to protect the GOP’s House majority. The blue wave washed right over it.
In a normal year, Republicans’ multi-state push to redraw seats should have handed them as many as a dozen extra seats. But in a historically large wave year — Democrats are on pace to win the national popular vote by roughly a 13-point margin — Republicans ended up netting just two seats.
In Texas, Republicans who kicked off the national fight thought they could pick up five more House seats with their new map. Instead, they won just one. In Tennessee, their gerrymander netted one seat — but they’re also on track to lose another deep-red seat that surprisingly flipped. The party’s only clear win is in Louisiana, where they’ll likely gain a seat in a race that is headed to a runoff.
“Calling it a dummymander is generous. This was more like moron-mandering,” said one frustrated Texas Republican strategist who, like others in this report, was granted anonymity to speak candidly. “We went for five seats, won none, killed an incumbent, and handed Democrats a reason to turn out. Was living with [Democratic Rep.] Henry Cuellar really that hard?”
Florida Republicans redrew their map to make four more seats ripe for a flip.
“If we pick up one seat, one would argue it’s successful,” GOP Rep. Randy Finesaid of his state’s redrawn map Tuesday night shortly after polls closed. “You know, it’s one more than we would have had.”
But when the dust cleared, it looks like they didn’t even manage that. Assuming no close races change hands, the state produced a net-zero gain for Republicans — and they barely avoided losing a number of other seats there. Rep. Darren Soto (D-Fla.) seems poised to hang on to a seat Republicans drew to favor Trump by 17 points, though it has not been called by the Associated Press.
One Florida House Republican said the overall effort “absolutely” backfired, calling it a “rough night for sure.”….
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