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To: Pikachu_Dad

That’s setting an awfully low bar.


20 posted on 02/07/2022 9:49:47 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Tennessee Adopts New Congressional Map That Nukes Long-Time Democrat’s Seat
Daily Caller ^ | 7 Feb 22 | ANDREW TRUNSKY
Posted on 2/7/2022, 9:16:43 PM by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Lee on Sunday signed a new congressional map into law that carves up a Nashville-based Democratic district three ways in order to expand his party’s advantage.

The new lines give Republicans a distinct advantage in eight of nine congressional districts, and they already forced Democratic Rep. Jim Cooper to retire after his Nashville seat moved from one that President Joe Biden won by 24 points to one that former President Donald Trump won by 11.

“Despite my strength at the polls, I could not stop the General Assembly from dismembering Nashville,” Cooper said in a statement a day after the legislature advanced the new maps.

The map’s adoption comes amid a fight for control of the House of Representatives before the 2022 midterm elections. Legislators in states across the country have drawn lines much more favorable to their party than in recent redistricting cycles, with maps in states like New York which could eliminate half of its Republicans in Congress and in states like Texas, whose map shores up every GOP member that was vulnerable in 2020.

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28 posted on 02/08/2022 2:20:47 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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