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Florida’s Republican governor signs state’s new congressional map into law

the Guardian·Lucy Campbell·6 months ago
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Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed a new gerrymandered congressional district map into law Monday which gives Republicans an electoral advantage in four additional races in November’s midterm elections.

“Signed, Sealed, and Delivered,” DeSantis said in a post on X, with a map of the new districts attached.

With the stroke of a pen, DeSantis, a Republican, has done more to determine the outcome of congressional elections in Florida than any political operative or field organizer in the state. The new map slices and dices districts around Miami, Orlando and the Tampa Bay area.

As an example of the effect of the mid-decade redistricting, mapmakers packed reliably Democratic voters around Orlando into a single district, forcing Democratic representatives Darren Soto and Maxwell Frost to compete for the same voters.

Conversely, the new map splits the Tampa Bay area from two districts into three, somewhat shoring up the 13th district for Republicans , now held by firebrand Trump supporter and influencer…

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