North Carolina GOP's redistricting effort sparks pushback

Democrats and voting rights advocates are sounding the alarm over North Carolina Republicans’ redistricting efforts, accusing the proposed new map of discriminating against Black voters in particular.

Tar Heel State Republicans announced they were moving forward with a new set of congressional lines earlier this year, approving the new map in mid-October. The map targets Rep. Don Davis (D-N.C.), a two-term congressman representing the 1st Congressional District, a heavily Black district President Trump won in 2020.

Opponents of the plan, including the NAACP, argue the redistricting move is not only diluting the Black vote by shifting half those voters into a neighboring district, but also having a detrimental effect on democracy as a whole.

“When congressional districts are redrawn so frequently, it erodes public trust and distracts from the real issues families care about, like costs, raising children, retaliatory tariffs and health care. Consequently, so many are left out in the process,” Davis told The Hill.



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