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• Gubernur Florida Ron DeSantis mengungkap peta distrik kongres baru yang dapat menghilangkan kursi tambahan Demokrat di DPR. • Proposal redistrikasi ini menargetkan area dengan petahana dari Partai Demokrat, yang memperparah persaingan menjelang pemilihan tengah periode (midterms) 2026. • Partai Republik menganggap hal ini sebagai kunci untuk mempertahankan mayoritas di DPR, sementara Partai Demokrat memperingatkan adanya taktik penekanan pemilih.

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...