A proposed congressional map that would likely net Republicans at least three U.S. House seats has advanced in the North Carolina Senate.
Republicans in the North Carolina Senate advanced a map proposal Monday for the state’s congressional districts beginning in 2024 that could position the party to pick up at least three seats in the U.S. House next year. The potential gains would be a boon to congressional Republicans seeking to preserve and expand their majority in the narrowly divided chamber. The Senate Redistricting and Elections Committee approved a plan for North Carolina's 14 U.S.
The Senate is expected to vote Tuesday on the proposed congressional map, and it could receive final approval in the similarly GOP-led House as early as Wednesday. Redistricting legislation cannot be vetoed by the Democratic governor. Democrats whose seats are threatened by the plan include first-term Reps. Jeff Jackson of Charlotte and Wiley Nickel of Cary, and second-term Rep. Kathy Manning of Greensboro.
Democrats would have a better chance of breaking up the GOP supermajority in the state House, he said, but that chamber's proposed map still strongly favors Republicans. A House committee is scheduled begin debating the chamber's proposal late Monday. Several outspoken Senate Democrats have been placed in the same districts as other incumbents under the map proposal, which could receive its first floor vote Tuesday. Democratic Sens.
’ve tried to be outspoken and not care about the consequences,' Grafstein, the state’s only out LGBTQ+ senator, said Monday. 'Whatever the intent, it sends a signal certainly that folks like Senator Marcus and myself who are outspoken are being treated differently.'
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