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#Ohio #Republicans Push Through New Districts in Bid for More Seats in #Congress
Republicans hold 10 of the state’s 15 seats in the #House. The new map improves the party’s odds of picking up two more in next year’s midterm #elections.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/us/politics/ohio-redistricting-deal.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
The map was approved at a morning meeting of the state’s #redistricting commission, & will give #Republicans, who currently hold 10 of #Ohio’s 15 seats in #Congress, a total of 12 districts that lean red.
With Republicans in control of Congress by just a few seats, #Trump has been urging allies in state capitals to redraw congressional maps mid-cycle to try to stop #Democrats’ from flipping the #House regardless of how the people vote.
The new map for #Ohio publicly emerged only late this week, when it was presented at a hastily called meeting of the state’s redistricting commission meeting on Thursday in Columbus. For weeks, the seven-member commission had taken no public action and it appeared that the task of redrawing the maps would end up back with the State Legislature, where #Republicans hold a super majority.
#law #ElectionLaw #redistricting #gerrymandering #rigged #midterms #Trump
More than a dozen speakers excoriated both #Republicans & #Democrats for backroom dealing that produced a map they considered #rigged.
“You are like foxes guarding the hen houses & #Ohio voters continue to be the hens,” said Michael Ahern, who spoke to the commission on Thursday wearing a baseball cap bearing the first three words of the #Constitution, “We The People.”
#law #ElectionLaw #redistricting #gerrymandering #midterms #Trump
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