Posted on 11/27/2025 6:50:02 AM PST by CFW
Voters in the Coastal Plains of North Carolina are on track for new congressional maps in the 2026 midterms.
The 1st and 3rd Congressional Districts are changed from the 2024 presidential cycle in the map redrawn this fall by the Legislature. On Wednesday, Justices Allison Jones Rushing, Richard Myers and Thomas Schroeder in a 57-page opinion concluded plaintiffs did not make a “clear showing that they are likely to succeed on the merits of any of the claims advanced in their preliminary injunction motions” and denied the request for a preliminary injunction.
Filing for the 2026 midterms begins Monday.
Rushing is from the U.S. Appeals Court, Myers and Schroeder from the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina where Myers is chief justice. The same panel last Friday delivered a 181-page opinion rejecting plaintiffs in two cases challenging a congressional map and state Senate and House maps for the 2024 cycle.
As newly constructed in Realign Congressional Districts 2025, known also as Senate Bill 249, six counties go from the 3rd Congressional District to the 1st Congressional District. Four counties go from the 1st to the 3rd. In the reconstruction, Republicans said their hope was to gain another seat – they have 10 to Democrats’ four in the 119th Congress – in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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With the large number of leftists in NC, this is welcome news. Wish Jesse Helms was still the senator
Given the lack of support for Trump’s policies by the GOP, I’m of the opinion that most of our Republican representatives are actually Democrats. If we can get an actual conservative in this seat, it will be a nice surprise.
If we can get an actual conservative in this seat, it will be a nice surprise.
https://kirkcenter.org/conservatism/ten-conservative-principles/
With the TN special election upcoming, we must hope that the GOP holds onto that seat because of the Democrat is a determined leftist. Can we really trust Nashille though?
I know in TX that Democrats often run as fake Republicans to make it easier to win the general election.
Federal judges need to stay out of congressional districting maps. The judiciary should have no say in what is a legislative power. Elections have consequences. A society in which judges decide everything is neither a “democracy” nor a republic.
I agree. Federal (DemonRAT) Judges have no right to tinker with OUR ELECTIONS. They need to stay the hell out and stop trying to get DemonRATS elected. Judges have never received one vote or even run for election. They are nothing more than DEI U.S. Government Employees. Lowlifes.
And yesterday we saw just another example of what their nonsense creates.
Oh yes, Federal judges have to approve congressional districts. It’s right there in the Constitution. Not.
The seat was won by 22 points a year ago. If we lose, the entire administration and party will have to look at what is going wrong and fix it.
And meanwhile Kalifornia will add 15 Rat districts...New York will add 10 and Illinois will add 8.
“Hopefully, this will mean another seat for the GOP.”
*Hopefully* is right.
The new NC map changes practically nothing. NC-1 as drawn in 2022 and 2024 was (according to Charlie Cook) a D+1 district, in other words a tossup which could have been won by the GOP anyway in many years.
Now it will be R+3. So now it’s light red instead of completely purple. It’s an improvement, but not one worth popping the champagne corks over. It guarantees nothing, and the Rat incumbent has a ton of money to spend in order to try to keep that seat (his GOP opponent also has a ton of money, which is nice).
The improvement in CD-1 comes at a cost which is paid by CD-3. CD-3 goes from R+10 (says Cook) down to R+4 in the new map. IOW, from “safe” to “nowhere near safe anymore”.
Put another way, the Republicans are *almost* as likely to LOSE CD-3 now as they are to GAIN CD-1 in North Carolina.
Three other GOP districts in NC are also a bit marginal (CD-7, CD-9, CD-11) in the new map. And four others are just outside marginal range (CD-5, CD-6, CD-10, CD-13) and not nearly *perfectly* safe for their Republican incumbents, especially if 2026 overall is a bloodbath and Whatley turns out to be an uninspiring loser (quite likely) against Roy Cooper in the Senate race.
There’s a not-insignificant chance that this 50-50 state which currently has 10 GOP House members and only 4 Rats (doesn’t that tell people anything right there?), might be a huge problem in 2026.
Well actually they do get voted on in the Senate.
So in that sense they run for “election”.
Which makes a rather large point: how in the hell did so many Statist Communists end up on the Federal bench?
Answer: Mitch “let’s make a deal” McConnell.
Trading judicial approval for budget deals was one of his gigs.
Look how that ended up.
remember when we had president Reagan, Sen Helms and Gov Holshour?
There are many NC RINOs with their hands already in the Green Energy Cookiejar and they want to stay there.
It will. The Democrats just lost a seat.
Wait, there are a bunch more red states who can shave off several more Democrat US House seats. Florida can probably wipe out 4 or 5 more.
Its long past time the Republicans learned to start playing hardball like the Democrats have done for decades.
“Given the lack of support for Trump’s policies by the GOP, I’m of the opinion that most of our Republican representatives are actually Democrats. “
What lack of support?
You and me both.
He was the GOAT!
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