WASHINGTON (AP) – As Republicans move Redrawn clerical map In the red state to fill the majority of Washington’s small homes, some Democrats say Rethinking their embrace A nonpartisan approach Lined Drowning It now complicates the capabilities of their party before next year’s midterm elections.
In many Democrat-controlled states, the normative challenge is that instead of independent committees rather than state legislatures handle the rezoning, it coordinates legislative districts to ensure equal populations. The majority party can use the process to shape the district of lawmakers, with reelection being almost guaranteed.
The committee model limits the ability of the parties to game the system, leading to more competitive districts. Not all rezoning committees were created with Democratic claims. And like Republicans, the party adopted drawing for its own benefits in a few states that govern the process. However, unlike Republicans, many Democratic leaders have embraced the nonpartisan model.
This means that Democrats have fewer options for Republicans. Redraw map of the US homes in Texas With the president Donald Trump’s Encourages to carve About the same5 new winnable seats For GOP. That may be enough to prevent Democrats from regaining their majority next year.
The GOP plan cleared the State Capitol Committee on Saturday.
The Democrats threatened in return. During Friday’s gathering with Wisconsin’s Democratic governors, some of them said they wanted to retaliate because they had such high interests.
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has pushed for a nonpartisan district committee in his state, saying Democrats “have to do everything they can” to counter Republican efforts to redraw the map of the Congress.
“When you have a gun on your head, you have to do something,” he said.
Despite the ambitious story, Democrats are primarily tying their hands.
Democrats have limited ability to redistribut the political advantage
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he and the Democratic-controlled Congress would attempt to redraw maps of his state’s legislature. However, they must abolish or deny the 2008 voting measure. Voters expanded their powers to the Legislature district two years later.
Newsom supported the constitutional reforms at the time when he was mayor of San Francisco. The Texas district, which is expected to pass Congress next week, has led him to revise the position.
“We can act more sacred than you. We can sit on the sidelines and talk about the ways the world should do, or we can recognize the existential nature that is this moment,” Newsom said earlier this month.
In New York, which is also a committee, the state constitution prohibits another map of the last decade. The Democrats moved for change, but that didn’t happen early until 2027 and with voter approval alone.
In other states where Democrats control the governor’s office and Congress, including Colorado and Washington, the party backed independent committees that could not redraw the rig in the mid-decade.
Democrats say it depends on the “basics of our democracy.”
When the constituency cycle began in 2021, after the final census, the independent committee was in charge of drawing 95 House seats otherwise drawn by Democrats, but only 13 were created by Republicans.
In markers of shifts between Democrats, former Attorney General Eric Holder, who led the party’s constituency efforts and repeatedly called for a more nonpartisan approach, appeared to congratulate his party’s long shot efforts to overturn their committee.
“We do not oppose responsible and responsive actions to ensure that our democratic foundations will not be eroded forever,” Holder said in a statement last week.
In states where they were not checked by the committee, Democrats are being re-edited as ruthlessly as Republicans. In Illinois, they drew a map that gave them a 14-3 advantage in a delegation of the legislature. In New Mexico, they tweaked the map to control all three house seats. Nevada held three of the four seats in November despite Trump winning the state.
Even in states where they have biased advantages, Democrats are looking for ways to maximize it.
Democrat Del David Moon, the leader of Maryland’s House majority, said Friday that if Texas moves forward, he would introduce legislation that would cause a redrawn of the Congressional boundaries. Democrats own seven of the state’s eight congressional seats.
“We can’t have one state, especially a very large state. We’re always trying to change the course of Congress’ control one at a time while the other states sit daze,” he said.
The committee promotes “fair expression,” supporters say
Advocates of the nonpartisan model are wary of changes among Democrats. They say that parties will decline as aggressively as the GOP if not restrained, and will take voters of the district’s voice, where the winner is pre-selected by political leaders.
“We’re very desperate. We’re looking for every port in the storm,” said Emily Eby French, Texas Director at Common Cause. “This democratic Tit from Tat Redistricting seems like a port, but it’s not a port. It’s a jagged rock with lots of sirens on them.”
Dan Vicuña, director of the group’s constituency, said that using the constituency for the advantage of partisans known as the gatekeeper, “it’s about fair expressions of the community.”
Politicians were embarrassed to discuss it openly, but that has changed in today’s polarized environment. Earlier this month, Trump spoke to reporters about his hopes of netting five additional GOP seats in Texas and getting more from other Republican-controlled states.
He has urged new maps of GOP-controlled states such as Indiana and Missouri, but Ohio Republicans are poised to rebuild their political lines. Neutralize the push Create an independent rezoning committee.
Democrats are divided into ways to deal with Texas
Amidst the signs of party disparity, Democrats have kept pushing national constituency panels that remove partisanship from the process, even as they seek retaliation against Republicans against state restrictions.
“Unsolved disarmament is following the law,” Arizona Senator Reuben Gallego said.
The same bill died in 2022, when Democrats were unable to overcome Republican objections despite the control of Congress and the presidency. There is no chance that a GOP will be responsible for both branches.
Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, another potential 2028 candidate, expressed no regrets about the past changes that set up a Democrat independent constituency.
He added that Republicans are “operating outside the box now and we can’t stay inside the box.”
“If they’re changing districts midway through the 10-year cycle, we have to do the same,” he said.
But the whole party doesn’t know that approach.
“We shouldn’t lie down on their tactics,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. “It would be ideal to have accurate and fair expressions. You can’t abandon it just because Republicans try to manipulate and distort it.”
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Riccardi reported from Denver. Associated Press authors Scott Bauer of Madison, Wisconsin, Jamie Dinn of Los Angeles, Anthony Isagile of Albany, New York, and Brian Whitte of Annapolis, Maryland, contributed to the report.
