GOP risks losing redistricting war if they ignore state races, group warns
This year’s frantic mid-decade redistricting fight may be the new normal — and Republicans need to invest more into legislative races lest they fall behind on this new “permanent arms race,” argues a new memo from the party’s state-focused campaign arm shared first with POLITICO.
“The legislative level truly holds the key to the federal level,” Edith Jorge-Tuñón, president of the Republican State Leadership Committee, said in an interview.
In the Friday memo — which is being shared with GOP donors — Jorge-Tuñón repeatedly hits Democrats for gerrymandering blue states, arguing that they will continue to stretch their margins as much as possible. Republicans, too, have drawn increasingly favorable maps — and fired the first shot in this year’s battle with Texas — shrinking the number of swing House seats that ultimately determine control of the chamber.
“Unless Republicans are prepared to match their focus and intensity, we risk allowing Democrats to gerrymander their way to a majority — not just once a decade, but year after year,” Jorge-Tuñón wrote.
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