Republicans in the North Carolina Senate have advanced a map proposal for the state’s congressional districts that could position the party to pick up at least three seats in the U.S. House next year. The potential gains would be a boon to congressional Republicans seeking to preserve and expand their majority in the narrowly divided chamber.
A sergeant-at-arms in the North Carolina state Senate passes out copies of a map proposal for the state’s congressional districts starting in 2024 during a committee hearing at the Legislative Office Building in Raleigh, N.C., Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023. The North Carolina state Senate reviews copies of a map proposal for the state’s congressional districts starting in 2024 during a committee hearing at the Legislative Office Building in Raleigh, N.C., Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023.
The Senate is expected to vote Tuesday on the proposed congressional map, and it could receive final approval in the similarly GOP-led House as early as Wednesday. Redistricting legislation cannot be vetoed by the Democratic governor.No. 10 North Carolina eyes a 7-0 start when it hosts Virginia in ACC playDemocrats whose seats are threatened by the plan include first-term Reps. Jeff Jackson of Charlotte and Wiley Nickel of Cary, and second-term Rep. Kathy Manning of Greensboro.
Republicans don’t deny that the proposed maps for Congress and the state House and Senate give them a clear partisan advantage in future elections. But they say it’s permissible after the state Supreme Court — which flipped last year from a Democratic majority to Republican — ruled in April that the The committee also approved a proposal for new state Senate boundaries that Duke University mathematician Jonathan Mattingly, who studies redistricting, says would help Republicans maintain their veto-proof majority in the chamber.
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