How DeSantis’ plan would change Florida’s map<\/p>\n
Republicans currently occupy 20 of Florida\u2019s 28 House seats. The redrawn map unveiled by DeSantis could allow them to secure an additional four.<\/p>\n
Florida\u2019s constitution effectively prohibits partisan redistricting. DeSantis, however, contended to Fox News<\/a> that the map he has proposed \u201cmore fairly represents the makeup of Florida today,\u201d pointing to changes in the state\u2019s population makeup since the 2020 Census and what he characterized as the current voting lines\u2019 \u201cunconstitutional\u201d consideration of race. On the latter point, DeSantis has previously cited<\/a>, among other things, a case being considered by the Supreme Court regarding the use of race as a factor in redrawing voting maps in Louisiana, though the court has not yet issued a decision in the case.<\/p>\n “Florida got shortchanged in the 2020 Census, and we\u2019ve been fighting for fair representation ever since,” DeSantis told Fox News, which received the proposed map from his office even before state lawmakers. “Our population has since grown dramatically, and we have moved from a Democrat majority to a 1.5 million Republican advantage. Drawing maps based on race, which is reflected in our current congressional districts, is unconstitutional and should be prohibited.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How DeSantis’ plan would change Florida’s map Republicans currently occupy 20 of Florida\u2019s 28 House seats. The redrawn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2715,28,30,29,41087],"class_list":["post-248748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-elections","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-news-desk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248748","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=248748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}