Florida The next big goal for Republican can be Related again His Congress lines for their benefits, potentially with plans for targets Prior to the mid -term elections of 2026, three to five house seats are currently held by Democrats.
The state already has a map of an excessive Germander that was pushed by Florida village Ron Desantis in 2022, giving birth to a Congress delegation of 20 Republicans and eight Democrats.
A more aggressive Gerimander in Florida will launch another Salvo in the political battle that has recently seen the GOP-control Texas and Democratic-controlled California Fight to implement new political maps. Currently, Democrats will need to win only three GOP seats in the House to claim control of the lower chamber.
President Trump, whose administration has pushed Texas for redistribution, has encouraged three other GOP-controlled states-India, Missouri And Florida – to re -prepare your Congress lines.
“As California proceeds with its map, there would be even more pressure to do so,” a Florida GOP operative said, who spoke anonymously to discuss the conversation between the state MPs. “I think Washington is going to see Florida and as it will be, ‘All the right people, you will fix it.”
In early August, Florida House President Daniel Perez took the first step and announced the construction of a selection committee on the Congress’s redistribution. Parace said that 1 July Indicated by Florida Supreme Court dishesN which retained the current Gerimander of the state and rejected a legal challenge on its abolition of the majority-black district in Northern Florida.
Critics had said that 2022 lines had violated the constitutional amendments of the state’s “fair districts” passed in 2010, which was aimed at preventing biased and racial Germandering. Perez says that the committee was now to be formed, with their redistribution efforts along with the intersection of the provisions of the fair districts to conduct a timely investigation.
,[T]Perez said in the memo, “Perez said in the memo,” National conversations are going on in other states related to midnight redistribution. Now, searching for these questions, at the point of mid-decade, potentially will allow us to seek legal guidance from our Supreme Court without associating with those questions. ,
The selection committee will hold its first meetings as the week of 6 October. The expectation between Florida MPs and GOP operators in the state is that the further debate of a new Congress map and potential passage will be added to the Dock for the Florida Legislative Session that starts in January 2026, although they are waiting to see how the redistrants are selected.
Most of the five Democratic Florida are American representatives, whose districts will be targeted during a possible raid, two Florida are familiar with the discussion among MPs according to GOP operators.
Democratic US Reps. Debbie Wasraman Shults, Lois Frankel, Jreds Moscovitz and Frederica Wilson, as well as rape. Rape. In Darren Soto, Orlando, their district can become more competitive by incorporating more Republican-Canting regions, or one can be drawn into the same district to establish an intrapent primary.
Florida Sen Shevin Jones, a Democrat in South Florida, asked the potential Redraw “a straight-up power grab, instead of choosing his voters, instead of choosing their representatives, instead of choosing their representatives.”
“Republican attracted the map of curse, and now they want to come back and also want to cut Black Democrats and even Democrats who have worked in the corridor for their district,” Jones said.
Kevin Wagner, Professor of Political Science of Florida Atlantic University, said that there is a sufficient risk for GOP to target Democratic seats and remove Republican voter bases away from strong GOP districts.
“It depends on how much risk they want to take. Because if you were in the +20 district towards your party, do you fix it to go to +5 or +6? People get worried and they don’t want to live in a non-safe district. It’s a little more horse trade than people,” Wagner said.
He said, “By re -starting the map, the perception is that voters are going to vote in the same magnitude and pattern which is first in existence. Sometimes it becomes true and never happens,” he said.
Call for mid -decade census
Florida village. Ron Desantis supports a mid -decade of redress in his state, but he took it a step further. In recent weeks, he has reiterated the call for the initial “reado” of Mr. Trump’s decancuel census counting – so that the unwarded immigrants were counted – and claimed that there was sufficient increase to allot another Congress seat to Florida population.
Desantis claimed that the Florida’s population was reduced by around 700,000 people – and the counting of Florida’s final population required 100,000 to get an additional US house seat.
The Census Bureau revealed in 2022 that Florida had an undercount of 3.48% (more than 756,000).
Desantis said that the state’s Attorney General James Undear would also argue to the Department of Commerce, which oversees the Census Bureau for a new mid -mid -census census. In July, Uthmeier sent a letter to the Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik “for a perfect census a correct census, which is eligible for Floridians to stay in the Congress.”
Wagner said, “It is not uncommon that it is a complaint that they have not received adequate representation of their population. There are valid arguments about how we count is whether it is an accurate representation of the population.”
The Census Bureau has not announced any change or plan for the correct census to complete the mid -term elections of 2026. The Constitution states that the count, or census will be counted every ten years. In order to discuss internal discussions, a census bureau employee said that it would be “impossible” to really operate timely census and real Congress seats for the mid -term of 2026.
CBS News has contacted the Department of Commerce to comment on any scheme to change the census timeline. Thus, no official announcement has been made to do so.
Generally, Desantis believe that Talhasi has political hunger to resume the lines of the state’s Congress.
“Even if they don’t do a new census, even if they don’t modify the current census, I still think it’s appropriate [redraw the lines]”Desantis said during a press conference in Florida on 11 August.
He said, “I have spoken to some people in the Florida Legislature, and I think it’s a widespread acknowledgment that it is something that is going to happen,” he said.
