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North Carolina‘S republican legislative leaders completed their remapping of us Home District, a step taken for additional security seat and help donald trumpThe GOP’s efforts to retain control in next year’s midterm elections.
New limits approved by Rajya Sabha threaten democratic the re-election of U.S. Representative Don Davis; His constituency covers 20 north-eastern counties. The state Senate approved the plan in a party-line vote on Tuesday.
Republicans have majorities in both General Assembly chambers, meaning Democratic Governor Josh Stein cannot legally veto redistricting maps. Thus, the GOP proposal can now be implemented unless potential litigation by Democrats or voting rights advocates blocks it. The candidate filing date for 2026 has been set for December 1.
Republican lawmakers made the intent of their proposed changes crystal clear — it’s an effort to meet Trump’s call for GOP-led states to secure more seats for the party across the country so Congress can continue to advance his agenda. Democrats have responded with rival measures in blue states. The president’s party historically loses seats in midterm elections, and Democrats currently need only three more seats to take control of the House.
“The new congressional map improves Republican political strength in eastern North Carolina and will bring an additional Republican seat to North Carolina’s congressional delegation,” GOP Rep. Brandon Jones said during a debate.
Democratic state Representative Gloristin Brown, an African American who represents an eastern North Carolina county, gave an impassioned speech in opposition, saying, “You are silencing black voices and going against the will of your voters.”
“North Carolina is a testing ground for a new era of Jim Crow laws,” Brown said.
Republican-led Texas and Missouri have already revised their U.S. House districts to help Republicans win additional seats. Democratic-led California asked state voters to approve a revised map to elect more Democrats and Jones accused California Governor Gavin Newsom of escalating the redistricting fight.
Jones said, “We will not let outsiders tell us how to govern, and we will never apologize for what the people of this state elected us to do.”
North Carolina’s replacement map would replace several counties in Davis’ current 1st district with another coastal district. Statewide election data shows that would help Republicans win 11 of 14 House seats, up from the 10 they have now, in a state where Trump got 51% of the popular vote in 2024.
Davis is one of three black representatives from North Carolina. Map critics suggested this latest GOP map could be challenged as an illegal racial gerrymander in a district that includes several majority Black counties, which have been consistently electing African Americans to the U.S. House since 1992.
Davis is already vulnerable — she won her second term by less than 2 percentage points, and according to the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, the 1st District was one of 13 across the country where Trump and a Democratic House member were both elected last year.
Davis on Tuesday called the proposed map “beyond the pale.”
Hundreds of Democratic and liberal activists stormed the legislative complex this week, criticizing GOP legislators for doing Trump’s bidding in what they called a power grab through a rushed and unfair redistricting process.
Karen Ziegler of the grassroots group Democracy Out Loud told senators this week, “If you pass this, your legacy will be to destroy the Constitution, to destroy democracy.” He accused the state GOP of “letting Donald Trump decide who represents the people of North Carolina.”
Democrats said the map is racial discrimination that would destroy decades of voting rights progress in North Carolina’s “Black Belt” region. Republicans argue that no racial data was used in drawing the districts, and that the redistricting was based on political parties, not race.
Based on last week’s arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in the Louisiana redistricting case, Democrats may lose this line of attack. The majority of justices appear inclined to neuter a key tool of the Voting Rights Act, which has protected political boundaries designed to help Black and Latino residents elect preferred candidates, who tend to be Democrats.
State GOP leaders say Trump has won North Carolina all three times in his race for the presidency — albeit by slim margins last year — and thus deserves more GOP support in Congress. Senate leader Phil Berger described it as appropriate “under the law and in concert with fundamentally listening to the will of the people”.