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• Florida-Gouverneur Ron DeSantis hat neue Karten für die Kongresswahlbezirke vorgestellt, die weitere demokratische Sitze im Repräsentantenhaus eliminieren könnten. • Der Vorschlag zur Neugliederung zielt auf Gebiete mit demokratischen Amtsinhabern ab und verschärft die Auseinandersetzungen vor den Zwischenwahlen 2026. • Republikaner sehen darin einen entscheidenden Schlüssel zur Sicherung der Mehrheit im Repräsentantenhaus, während Demokraten vor Taktiken zur Wählerunterdrückung warnen.

Proposal from Ron DeSantis would net Republicans up to four additional US House seats ahead of midterm electionsRon DeSantis, Florida’s Republican governor, on Monday unveiled his proposal for redistricting his state’s congressional maps, a move he hopes will net his party up to four additional House seats in November’s midterm elections.The long-awaited reveal, which will be debated during a special session of Florida’s legislature called by DeSantis beginning Tuesday, is the latest, and possibly final, act of a nationwide “gerrymandering” battle for control of Congress sparked by Donald Trump that looks increasingly to be moving back in Republicans’ favor. Continue reading...

Governor called referendum after president urged GOP-led states to redraw maps to protect House majorityVoters in Virginia on Tuesday approved new congressional maps intended to boost Democrats’ chances of retaking the House of Representatives, in the latest blow to Donald Trump’s effort to use mid-decade redistricting to preserve his control of Congress.The tit-for-tat redistricting battle began last year after Trump pressed Texas’s Republican-controlled legislature to redraw that state’s congressional maps in a bid to oust as many as five Democratic House lawmakers in the November midterm elections. Continue reading...