Morning Digest: South Carolina Republicans propose dueling House maps with starkly different lines
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The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Daniel Donner, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar. Leading Off ●Morning Digest: South Carolina Republicans propose dueling House maps with starkly different lines
The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Daniel Donner, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar. Leading Off ● SC Redistricting: Republicans in the South Carolina state House have released a new congressional map that differs considerably from a proposal their counterparts in the state Senate put out in November. Most surprisingly, while Senate Republicans sought to protect GOP Rep. Nancy Mace by making the 1st District redder, the House map actually makes it bluer. Under the present lines, the 1st voted for Donald Trump 52-46, but it would have given him a narrower 50-48 win in the House version, according to Dave's Redistricting App, while the Senate map would have extended Trump's spread to 54-45. Don't expect the House version to become law, though. As Republican state Rep. Jay Jordan, the chair of the House's redistricting committee, explained, «They'll drop a bill, we'll drop a bill on the same issue and it'll look very different. It'll go through the process and by the time it comes out the other end we've worked something out more often than not.» Read more