RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) \u2014 North Carolina Republican legislative leaders announced plans Monday to vote next week on redrawing the state\u2019s U.S. House district map, with a likely aim to secure another GOP seat within already right-leaning boundaries.<\/p>\n
The move comes amid an emerging mid-decade battle<\/a> nationally between Republicans and Democrats seeking advantage in the way U.S. House districts are drawn in several states for the 2026 session.<\/p>\n North Carolina Republicans already created a map in 2023 that resulted in GOP candidates winning 10 of the state\u2019s 14 U.S. House seats in 2024. That division compared to the 7-7 seat split between Democrats and the GOP under the map used in 2022.<\/p>\n Now only one of the state\u2019s House district\u2019s \u2013- the 1st District currently represented by Democratic Rep. Don Davis \u2013- is considered a swing district and could be targeted by the GOP for an 11th seat. Davis won a second term last year by less than 2 percentage points, so shifting slightly portions of the district covering nearly 20 northeastern counties could help a Republican candidate in a strong GOP year.<\/p>\n A news release from the state\u2019s Republican legislators said their planned action \u201cfollows President Donald Trump\u2019s call urging legislatures across the country to take action to nullify Democrat redistricting efforts.\u201d <\/p>\n Trump<\/a> kickstarted the redistricting battle this summer by calling upon Republican-led Texas to reshape its U.S. House districts so that the GOP could win more seats in next year\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n As Texas redrew its districts to give Republicans a shot at winning five more seats, Democrats in California reciprocated<\/a> by passing their own redistricting plan aimed at helping Democrats win five additional seats. Then lawmakers in Republican-led Missouri approved revised<\/a> U.S. House districts intended to help Republicans win an additional seat.<\/p>\n The new Texas map faces a legal challenge. The California map still needs voter approval in a Nov. 4 election to take effect. And the Missouri map faces both court challenges and an initiative petition campaign seeking to force a statewide referendum on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) \u2014 North Carolina Republican legislative leaders announced plans Monday to vote next week on redrawing…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":300851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[276,153023,69,90,57,2055,9540,521,50,519,22204,89,61,322,67,326,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-300850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-don-davis","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-elections","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-government-and-politics","15":"tag-missouri","16":"tag-nc-state-wire","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-north-carolina","19":"tag-redistricting","20":"tag-u-s-democratic-party","21":"tag-u-s-news","22":"tag-u-s-republican-party","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-house-of-representatives","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115368855145060827","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}