{"id":2321,"date":"2025-10-13T21:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T21:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/2321\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T21:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T21:19:06","slug":"berger-hall-lead-north-carolina-fight-against-californias-newsom-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/2321\/","title":{"rendered":"Berger, Hall lead North Carolina fight against California\u2019s Newsom | North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"

(The Center Square) \u2013 Calling out California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his strategy by name, North Carolina General Assembly leaders Phil Berger and Destin Hall say lawmakers will be in Raleigh this month to consider a new congressional map.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump delivered countless victories during his first term in office, and nine months into his second term he continues to achieve unprecedented wins,\u201d said Berger, the eighth-term Republican Senate President Pro Tempore from Rockingham County. \u201cPicking up where Texas left off, we will hold votes in our October session to redraw North Carolina\u2019s congressional map to ensure Gavin Newsom doesn\u2019t decide the congressional majority.\u201d<\/p>\n

North Carolina sends 14 members to the U.S. House of Representatives. Litigation by Democrats and other groups considered leaning left stalled implementation for 2022 a Legislative map as constitutionally required after the last decennial census. In 2024, the lawmakers’ map was in place.<\/p>\n

One district is considered a battleground and has been won by a Democrat each election since 1882; the other 13 are 10-3 Republicans and all were decided by at least 13%<\/a> in 2024.<\/p>\n

In the U.S. House, there are 219 Republicans, 213 Democrats and three vacancies. California\u2019s portion is 43-9 Democrats; Texas is 25-12 Republicans.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump earned a clear mandate from the voters of North Carolina and the rest of the country, and we intend to defend it by drawing an additional Republican congressional seat,\u201d said Hall, the Republican first-term speaker of the House of Representatives from Caldwell County. \u201cOur state won\u2019t stand by while Democrats like Gavin Newsom redraw districts to aid in their effort to obtain a majority in the U.S. House. We will not allow them to undermine the will of the voters and President Trump\u2019s agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rep. Robert Reives, D-Chatham, the minority leader of the lower chamber, said in a statement, \u201cRepublican lawmakers made clear today that they plan to come back to Raleigh and disenfranchise the voters of this state. Instead of lowering costs for families or ensuring Medicaid can stay afloat, they are hellbent on consolidating as much power as they can.<\/p>\n

\u201cCall it what it is: They are stealing a congressional district in order to shield themselves from accountability at the ballot box.\u201d<\/p>\n

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed a new map into law on Sept. 28. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott did likewise on Aug. 29. Other states at varying levels of engagement that could alter the House majorities include Ohio, Louisiana, Georgia, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland and New York.<\/p>\n

\u201cNorth Carolina was at the forefront of the Democrats\u2019 sue-until-blue scheme,\u201d said Sen. Ralph Hise, R-Mitchell. \u201cAnd we\u2019re prepared to bring forward a new congressional map to defeat this new scheme.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s chairman of the Committee on Redistricting in his chamber. Reps. Brenden Jones, R-Columbus, and Hugh Blackwell, R-Burke, have similar responsibility in the lower chamber.<\/p>\n

In a joint statement, they said, \u201cWe\u2019re stepping into this redistricting battle because California and the radical left are attempting to rig the system to handpick who runs Congress. This ploy is nothing new, and North Carolina will not stand by while they attempt to stack the deck. President Trump has called on us to fight back, and North Carolina stands ready to level the playing field.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(The Center Square) \u2013 Calling out California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his strategy by name, North Carolina General…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,1613,3158],"class_list":["post-2321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-general","tag-north_carolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}