{"id":1141291,"date":"2021-12-22T09:19:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T14:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1141291"},"modified":"2021-12-22T09:19:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T14:19:15","slug":"another-pro-impeachment-republican-punished-in-redistricting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/another-pro-impeachment-republican-punished-in-redistricting\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Pro-impeachment Republican Punished in Redistricting"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fanother-pro-impeachment-republican-punished-in-redistricting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1141291&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/David-Valadao-Associated-Press-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Another Republican who voted for the second impeachment of President Donald Trump in January has seen his district redrawn in a way that makes it more difficult for him to win reelection next year \u2014 this time, Rep. David Valadao (R-CA).<\/p>\n<p>In October, Illinois Democrats rewarded Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-CA) \u2014 who not only voted for impeachment, but serves on the controversial January 6 committee \u2014 by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/15\/illinois-democrats-reward-never-trump-adam-kinzinger-by-redrawing-district-to-end-his-career\/\">redrawing<\/a> his district in a way that forced him to announce his retirement.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In Illinois, billionaire Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) had campaigned on the promise to introducing an independent, non-partisan redistricting commission \u2014 a promise he broke by handing the process over to partisan Democrats in the state legislature.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>In California, an independent commission has been in charge of redistricting since the last Census. However, as in the last redistricting effort, the commission has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/21\/independent-california-redistricting-map-boosts-democrats-hurts-republicans-los-angeles-again\/\">produced<\/a> a map that favors incumbent Democrats and hurts incumbent Republicans.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: California&#8217;s near-final draft map looks terrific for Dems. All 42 Dem incumbents (except retiring Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D), whose Long Beach seat is folded in w\/ LA Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D)&#8217;s), get strong seats.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, *five* of 11 GOP seats get more vulnerable. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EUAtN2SRsI\">pic.twitter.com\/EUAtN2SRsI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Redistrict\/status\/1472957123449569290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Biggest losers on this draft map:<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CA04?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CA04<\/a> McClintock (R) \u2013 Trump +10 to +2<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CA21?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CA21<\/a> Valadao (R) \u2013 Biden +11 to +13<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CA25?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CA25<\/a> Garcia (R) \u2013 Biden +10 to +12<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CA42?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CA42<\/a> Calvert (R) \u2013 Trump +7 to +1<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CA48?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CA48<\/a> Steel (R) \u2013 Biden +2 to +6<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Redistrict\/status\/1472957127685771269?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In Valadao\u2019s case, the&nbsp;<em>Washington Post&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/21\/california-redistricting-latinos\/\">notes<\/a>, Democrats made an already-difficult district even harder for him to win:<\/p>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\" data-el=\"text\">An example of the potential benefits to Democrats is the new 22nd Congressional District, located in the state\u2019s expansive Central Valley.<b> <\/b>It is represented by Rep. David G. Valadao, a Republican who lost his seat in the 2018 Democratic midterm wave and won it back in 2020.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\">\n<p class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\" data-el=\"text\">Valadao, who is one of the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach President Donald Trump over his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, will face an even more Democratic electorate next year in a district Biden would have won by 13 percentage points and in which nearly 60 percent of potential voters are Latino. Valadao previously prevailed in a district Biden won by 11 percentage points.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\">\n<p class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\" data-el=\"text\">Valadao lost some of his more Republican territory to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R), whose new 20th District juts into Valadao\u2019s current district like an outstretched arm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\" data-el=\"text\">\u201cIf Democrats are going to control Congress, it\u2019s my prediction that will happen because a bunch of 18-year-old Latinos showed up to vote in the [Valadao\u2019s] district and flipped that seat,\u201d said Christian Arana, vice president of policy at the Latino Community Foundation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\" data-el=\"text\">In 2011, liberal ProPublica <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/how-democrats-fooled-californias-redistricting-commission\">exposed<\/a> the fact that Democrats manipulated the nominally non-partisan and independent redistricting commission in California to produce a partisan map that wiped out several Republican representatives.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Republican who voted for the second impeachment of President Donald Trump in January has seen his district redrawn in a way that makes it more difficult for him to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}