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The fight for control of the U.S. House is increasingly shifting from the ballot box to redistricting battles across the country following a series of decisions in statehouses around the country as well as the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
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Just days after Tennessee\u2019s Republican-led legislature approved a new congressional map that removes the state\u2019s only Democrat-held, majority-Black district \u2014 resulting in an all-Republican delegation \u2014 a new \u201cCrystal Ball\u201d redistricting analysis points to broader implications for the political landscape.<\/p>\n
The developments come as Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), assess the potential impact on their party\u2019s chances of regaining control of both chambers.<\/p>\n
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The shift follows a recent Supreme Court decision striking down Louisiana\u2019s racially-gerrymandered congressional map, a ruling expected to influence redistricting efforts across several Southern states:<\/p>\n
Here is the new CRYSTAL BALL report after the Tennessee redistricting.<\/p>\n
STATUS OF THE REDISTRICTING WARS . . .
\nCOMPLETED:
\nCalifornia +5 Dems
\nUtah +1 Dems
\nTexas +5 GOP
\nFlorida +4 GOP
\nNorth Carolina +1 GOP
\nMissouri +1 GOP
\nOhio +2 GOP
\nTennessee +1
\nGOP TOTAL COMPLETED:\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/lODbc7xCRj<\/p>\n
\u2014 Ben Hart (@BenHart_Freedom) May 7, 2026<\/p>\n
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California: +5 Dems
\nUtah: +1 Dems
\nTexas: +5 GOP
\nFlorida: +4 GOP
\nNorth Carolina: +1 GOP
\nMissouri: +1 GOP
\nOhio: +2 GOP
\nTennessee: +1 GOP
\nTOTAL COMPLETED: +6 Dems, +14 GOP<\/p>\n
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Alabama: +1 GOP (80% Happening)
\nLouisiana: +2 GOP (90% Happening)
\nMississippi: +1 GOP (30% Happening)
\nVirginia: +0 Dems (Overturned by VA Supreme Court)<\/p>\n
MOST LIKELY OUTCOME: +17 GOP, +6 Dems \u2192 NET GAIN OF +11 SEATS FOR THE REPUBLICANS!<\/p>\n
On Friday, the Virginia Supreme Court struck down a Democrat-inspired gerrymandered congressional map that would have given the party four of the five seats currently held by Republicans in a state that is about as evenly divided as any in the country.<\/p>\n
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\u201cOn March 6, 2026, the General Assembly of Virginia submitted to Virginia voters a proposed constitutional amendment that authorizes partisan gerrymandering of congressional districts in the Commonwealth. We hold that the legislative process employed to advance this proposal violated Article XII, Section 1 of the Constitution of Virginia. This constitutional violation incurably taints the resulting referendum vote and nullifies its legal efficacy,\u201d said the 4-3 ruling.<\/p>\n
\u201cVirginians voted by a wide margin\u201d in 2020 \u201cto reform the redistricting process in the Commonwealth in an effort to end partisan gerrymandering,\u201d the ruling continued. \u201cThey adopted Article II, Section 6-A of the Constitution of Virginia to create the Virginia Redistricting Commission. Under the 2020 amendment, if this bipartisan commission could not reach a consensus, the responsibility to achieve the amendment\u2019s ultimate goal \u2014 ridding political partisanship as much as possible from the redistricting task \u2014 would become the constitutional responsibility of the Supreme Court of Virginia.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 2021, partisan disputes in the Virginia Redistricting Commission deadlocked the 16-member commission. When the task fell to us pursuant to Article II, Section 6-A, we unanimously ordered that the prior district maps be replaced with wholly new maps that commentators across a wide spectrum of political views later deemed to be free of partisan bias,\u201d the ruling noted further.<\/p>\n
The court said that the Democrat majority in the state legislature earlier this year then decided to put a new politically gerrymandered map to a vote of the people.<\/p>\n
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The amendment narrowly passed with barely 50 percent of the vote for and about 47.8 percent against.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnder the proposed new map, approximately 47% of Virginians that voted for representatives of one of the major political parties in the last congressional election would now be represented by 9% of Virginia\u2019s delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives \u2014 while the approximately 51% of Virginians that voted for the other major political party would now be represented by 91% of Virginia\u2019s congressional delegation,\u201d the court wrote.<\/p>\n
The ruling was one of the most closely watched this election cycle, and it comes amid efforts by other states to successfully gerrymander their congressional maps. So far, Republican-led states have the upper hand in the redistricting battle, with Florida adding 4 GOP-controlled seats last week and Texas adding five earlier this year.<\/p>\n
Democrat-aligned groups immediately sued Florida; the Texas map, however, has been upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. Other states like Missouri and North Carolina have added one GOP seat apiece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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