{"id":258092,"date":"2026-05-04T19:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/258092\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T19:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:00:08","slug":"floridas-republican-governor-signs-states-new-congressional-map-into-law-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/258092\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida\u2019s Republican governor signs state\u2019s new congressional map into law | Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida governor Ron DeSantis<\/a> signed a new gerrymandered congressional district map into law Monday which gives Republicans an electoral advantage in four additional races in November\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cSigned, Sealed, and Delivered,\u201d DeSantis said in a post <\/a>on X, with a map of the new districts attached.<\/p>\n

With the stroke of a pen, DeSantis, a Republican, has done more to determine the outcome of congressional elections in Florida<\/a> than any political operative or field organizer in the state. The new map slices and dices districts around Miami, Orlando and the Tampa Bay area.<\/p>\n

As an example of the effect of the mid-decade redistricting, mapmakers packed reliably Democratic voters around Orlando into a single district, forcing Democratic representatives Darren Soto and Maxwell Frost to compete for the same voters.<\/p>\n

Conversely, the new map splits the Tampa Bay area from two districts into three, somewhat shoring up the 13th district for Republicans<\/a>, now held by firebrand Trump supporter and influencer congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, while weakening a left-leaning district for Democrats held by congresswoman Kathy Castor.<\/p>\n

Representative Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, a longstanding figure among the Democratic National Committee, has had her seat drawn out from beneath her. Miami\u2019s Democrats<\/a> have been packed into three tight districts along the coast.<\/p>\n

Florida\u2019s current delegation has 20 Republicans and eight Democrats.<\/p>\n

Criticism of the redistricting has come from both the right and the left. Democrats accuse DeSantis of violating the state\u2019s constitution, which has a plain-language prohibition passed by popular mandate on partisan gerrymandering. Republicans fear the aggressive redraw endangers at least as many of Florida\u2019s Republican representatives as it protects, and may backfire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed a new gerrymandered congressional district map into law Monday which gives Republicans an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-258092","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\/258092","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=258092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}