{"id":243218,"date":"2026-04-23T13:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/243218\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T13:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:17:07","slug":"florida-redistricting-push-divides-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/243218\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida redistricting push divides Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida might redraw its congressional maps to add red seats after Virginia voters cleared the way this week for a Democratic gerrymander. <\/p>\n

But some in the state\u2019s Republican delegation are warning they won\u2019t be able to squeeze that many more seats out. Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., said they could add two seats and \u201cthree if we\u2019re feeling froggy, but I think we shouldn\u2019t overextend ourselves to put people in vulnerable positions.\u201d And Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., said it was \u201cup to [state legislators]. I mean, I have enough work.\u201d <\/p>\n

House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters<\/a>: \u201cFlorida has the right and the intention to do it. And my view is that they should.\u201d The state is hamstrung in its redistricting efforts despite a Republican trifecta by a constitutional amendment barring maps favoring a specific party. Democrats are warning a Florida gerrymander will backfire on Republicans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida might redraw its congressional maps to add red seats after Virginia voters cleared the way this week…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-243218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}