North Carolina redistricting could give GOP four more House seats

North Carolina’s state Supreme Court docket is about to listen to a problem to the state’s congressional map. It might probably profit the GOP in 2024.

The present map, which was put in after the state Supreme Court docket struck down a legislature-passed map, might result in the Republicans selecting up as many as 4 Home seats in 2024.

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The state Supreme Court docket now holds a conservative majority after elections final fall, and the court docket lately agreed to revisit its prior resolution.

North Carolina’s 14 Home seats are at the moment evenly break up between Republicans and Democrats, however the beforehand enacted map, struck down by the court docket, would have seemingly arrange the GOP with as many as 11 seats.

One professional advised Reuters it could not be a shock if the previous map was reinstated as an alternative of a completely new map being formulated.

“I would not be shocked if they simply went by means of the Kabuki theater, and we really find yourself with precisely the identical maps,” Catherine Turcer, the manager director of Frequent Trigger Ohio, advised Reuters

Early projections for the 2024 Home races from the Cook dinner Political Report present the GOP with a bonus, with the seemingly set up of recent Republican-friendly maps in North Carolina and Ohio enjoying a job within the early projection.

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Republicans at the moment maintain a slim 221-212 majority within the Home of Representatives after taking again management of the chamber in 2022 regardless of underperforming in most key races nationwide.