{"id":1190455,"date":"2022-01-05T11:34:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T16:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1190455"},"modified":"2022-01-05T11:34:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T16:34:55","slug":"top-house-forecaster-republicans-redistricting-advantage-hardly-panned-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-house-forecaster-republicans-redistricting-advantage-hardly-panned-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Top House Forecaster: Republicans\u2019 Redistricting Advantage Hardly Panned Out"},"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\">18<\/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%2Ftop-house-forecaster-republicans-redistricting-advantage-hardly-panned-out%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=1190455&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><\/div>\n<p>David Wasserman, a senior editor at the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, said Wednesday that the redistricting process, long thought to favor Republicans, was essentially a \u201cwash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There may be more House seats that President Joe Biden would have won in 2020 under the new maps, Wasserman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookpolitical.com\/analysis\/house\/house-overview\/2022-house-overview-still-gop-advantage-redistricting-looks-wash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote<\/a>, essentially undercutting the advantage Republicans enjoyed for the past decade.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats, however, are seeking to defend their 221-212 House majority, and Wasserman noted that if Biden\u2019s approval rating remained in the low to mid-40s it would likely not be enough to prevent Republicans from taking back the House in 2022 given that many of the seats only went Democratic by narrow margins.<\/p>\n<p>Given the new maps\u2019 partisan distribution, Wasserman wrote, \u201cthe practical effect of new lines in 2022 still points towards a wash or a slight GOP gain.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/28\/michigan-approves-new-us-house-map-leading-to-an-incumbent-v-incumbent-primary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Michigan Approves New US House Map, Incumbent V. Incumbent Immediately Follows)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NEW <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CookPolitical?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CookPolitical<\/a>: Republicans are still clear favorites in 2022, but there are poised to be perhaps 3-8 *more* Biden-won seats after redistricting than there are now \u2013 creating a House map less biased towards the GOP than the past decade\u2019s. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PJkHJZ4GGM\">https:\/\/t.co\/PJkHJZ4GGM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Redistrict\/status\/1478718423127494663?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2022<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Republicans passed maps in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/25\/texas-congressional-map-two-new-seats-greg-abbott\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Texas<\/a>, Ohio, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/04\/north-carolina-adopts-new-congressional-map-that-bolsters-republicans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">North Carolina<\/a> and Georgia shoring up vulnerable GOP seats and eliminating multiple Democratic ones. But the new maps have been met with lawsuits that could ultimately succeed, and new maps adopted in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/21\/california-congressional-map-democratic-majority\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California<\/a>, New Mexico, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/15\/illinois-democrats-maximize-seats-axe-republicans-new-congressional-map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Illinois<\/a> and proposed in New York may be effective counters, shoring up Democrats and eliminating Republicans. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/10\/two-house-republicans-face-potential-defeat-under-redrawn-maps-maryland-new-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Two House Republicans Face Potential Defeat Under Redrawn Maps In Maryland, New Mexico)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Further, while Republicans had complete control over the redistricting process in Louisiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin a decade ago, the process is now either split or left to an independent commission in all five.<\/p>\n<p>But despite less GOP control, Wasserman noted that the Democrats\u2019 House control was still very much in jeopardy, noting how they began with \u201cvirtually no margin for error\u201d and how Biden\u2019s disapproval has amplified an unfavorable political environment.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Wasserman, a senior editor at the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, said Wednesday that the redistricting process, long thought to favor Republicans, was essentially a \u201cwash.\u201dThere may be more House &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"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-1190455","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\/1190455","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\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1190455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190455\/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=1190455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}