{"id":1173768,"date":"2021-12-30T21:19:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T02:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1173768"},"modified":"2021-12-30T21:19:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T02:19:42","slug":"two-michigan-house-democrats-will-go-head-to-head-in-2022-primary-due-to-redistricting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-michigan-house-democrats-will-go-head-to-head-in-2022-primary-due-to-redistricting\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Michigan House Democrats Will Go Head to Head in 2022 Primary Due to 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\">30<\/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%2Ftwo-michigan-house-democrats-will-go-head-to-head-in-2022-primary-due-to-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=1173768&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\/GettyImages-1283954318-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Due to redistricting, two Michigan House Democrats in neighboring districts will go&nbsp;head to head in the 2022 midterm primary.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the state\u2019s&nbsp;13-member&nbsp;\u201cindependent\u201d&nbsp;redistricting commission approved the new map, labeled \u201cChestnut,\u201d with eight votes, shifting the state\u2019s districts and forcing incumbents to decide where they would run for reelection.<\/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>Shortly after,&nbsp;Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI), who currently represents the eleventh congressional district, and Rep. Andy Levin (D-MI), who currently represents the ninth congressional district, announced&nbsp;they would be running in the&nbsp;newly-drawn eleventh congressional district due to the&nbsp;redistricting process cutting one congressional seat from the state after the&nbsp;2020 census data was released.<\/p>\n<p>Stevens, who recently&nbsp;moved to&nbsp;Waterford Township, which is near the&nbsp;north side of the new district\u2019s border, said in a statement she is excited to continue representing her home, Oakland County.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Now that we have final mapping configurations, I am excited to announce that I will continue representing my home, Oakland County and will be filing to run for re-election in the new Michigan&#8217;s 11th.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Haley Stevens (@HaleyLive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HaleyLive\/status\/1475932110049402887?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>However,&nbsp;shortly after Stevens\u2019 statement,&nbsp;Levin said he will run for reelection in the newly-drawn&nbsp;eleventh district where he grew up and lives. Levin also&nbsp;highlighted that his hometown, Berkley, is in the district.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Working families are seeing Washington deliver at long last, and we must keep up this incredible momentum and meet this moment. That\u2019s why today, I am announcing that I will run for reelection where I grew up and where I live, in Michigan\u2019s newly-drawn Eleventh District in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andy Levin (@Andy_Levin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Andy_Levin\/status\/1475941554435018752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I have had the honor of representing and fighting every day for many of the new Eleventh District\u2019s cities and townships in Congress. I cannot wait to see what more we can accomplish together. Let&#8217;s go!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andy Levin (@Andy_Levin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Andy_Levin\/status\/1475943191434170369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The 2020 census was the fifth consecutive time the state had a congressional seat cut during the redistricting process since 1980, when the state had 19 seats in the&nbsp;House. The&nbsp;<em>Detroit&nbsp;Free Press<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2021\/04\/26\/michigan-congressional-seats\/7388701002\/\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Michigan\u2019s resident population was 10.077 million \u2014 and the state had an overall apportionment population of 10.084 million when accounting for Michiganders living or stationed&nbsp;overseas \u2014&nbsp;an&nbsp;increase of 2% since 2010. While that rate was better than Illinois&nbsp;\u2014 which had a slight loss in population&nbsp;\u2014 it was worse than other states in the Midwest. Nationally, the fastest growing state was Utah, which grew 18.4% over the decade. West Virginia shrank the most, losing 3.25% of its population.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Overall, the Midwest grew by 3.1%, the slowest regional growth rate in the country. The Northeast was next with a 4.1% rate of growth. Comparatively, the West grew by 9.2% and the South by 10.2%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">As such, five states&nbsp;\u2014 Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina and Oregon&nbsp;\u2014 gained a seat in Congress, while Texas gained two. States losing a seat included California, New York and West Virginia, as well as the three Midwestern states and Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, the&nbsp;newly drawn eleventh congressional district is considered by&nbsp;FiveThirtyEight to be&nbsp;safe for Democrats since it contains&nbsp;Oakland County, which <a href=\"https:\/\/results.enr.clarityelections.com\/MI\/Oakland\/105840\/web.264614\/#\/summary\">voted<\/a> for&nbsp;President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., Stevens, and Levin&nbsp;in the last election.<\/p>\n<p>Both representatives were first elected in 2018 and reelected in 2020 in their respective districts. This year, since they are both incumbents facing each other, their race will be closely watched.<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to redistricting, two Michigan House Democrats in neighboring districts will go\u00a0head to head in the 2022 midterm primary. On Tuesday, the state\u2019s\u00a013-member\u00a0\u201cindependent\u201d\u00a0redistricting commission approved the new map, labeled \u201cChestnut,\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"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-1173768","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\/1173768","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173768\/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=1173768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}