{"id":46466,"date":"2026-04-27T18:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/46466\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T18:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:30:10","slug":"florida-gov-ron-desantis-unveils-gop-redistricting-plan-to-grab-4-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/46466\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis unveils GOP redistricting plan to grab 4 seats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Monday unveiled an aggressive Republican redistricting plan<\/a> aimed at flipping four seats from Democrats in the upcoming midterm congressional elections.<\/p>\n

With President Trump\u2019s GOP allies clinging to a narrow majority<\/a>, DeSantis is hoping to help Republicans hold onto the House of Representatives by restoring a Republican edge in the state-by-state gerrymandering war<\/a> that Trump unleashed.<\/p>\n

The controversial effort, which the GOP-dominated state legislature will consider starting Tuesday<\/a>, comes just a week after Virginia voters approved a pro-Democratic gerrymander map that would flip four Republican-held seats in that state.<\/p>\n

The map seeks to transform the state\u2019s already pro-Republican 20-8 delegation into a 20-4 edge<\/a>. It eliminates two Democratic-held seats in south Florida and one each in the Tampa and Orlando area, where Democratic Rep. Darren Soto serves as the first Puerto Rican congressman<\/a> from the state.<\/p>\n

The political power play is not without serious risk for Republicans<\/a>, especially as Democrats have dramatically outperformed expectations across the nation and particularly in the Sunshine State.<\/p>\n

\"HouseHouse Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The new map creates new GOP-leaning districts by splitting up Democratic voters into neighboring Republican-held districts<\/a>, effectively increasing the potential political peril they could face, particularly in a blue-leaning political environment with Trump\u2019s approval ratings plumbing historic lows.<\/p>\n

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries said Democrats would sue in both state and federal courts to block the changes, claiming that the redistricting effort \u201cblatantly violates\u201d a Florida constitutional amendment<\/a> that bars partisan gerrymandering.<\/p>\n

DeSantis has brushed off warnings from Jeffries, and even joked that he would bankroll a campaign swing\/fishing trip<\/a> to the Sunshine State to spotlight the Democratic leader\u2019s involvement in the races.<\/p>\n

Regardless of the outcome, Florida is widely expected to be the last shoe to drop<\/a> in the redistricting fight.<\/p>\n

Trump launched the unprecedented mid-decade battle as a surprise secret weapon aimed at holding onto the House, where the GOP now holds a six-seat edge.<\/p>\n

But the gambit has backfired and it looks like a dead heat at best after Virginia joined several states<\/a> on both sides of the aisle to redraw district maps.<\/p>\n

Pundits and betting markets now consider Democrats are overwhelmingly favored<\/a> to retake the House and install Jeffries as the first Black Speaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Monday unveiled an aggressive Republican redistricting plan aimed at flipping four seats from Democrats…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[477,12,96,485,491,1417,1791],"class_list":{"0":"post-46466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hakeem-jeffries","8":"tag-congress","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-hakeem-jeffries","12":"tag-house-of-representatives","13":"tag-midterms","14":"tag-ron-desantis"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116478097735380576","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}