{"id":1226709,"date":"2022-01-20T07:22:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T12:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1226709"},"modified":"2022-01-20T07:22:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T12:22:21","slug":"exclusive-state-republicans-launch-new-ad-campaign-targeting-democrats-gerrymandering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-state-republicans-launch-new-ad-campaign-targeting-democrats-gerrymandering\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: State Republicans Launch New Ad Campaign Targeting Democrats, Gerrymandering"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fexclusive-state-republicans-launch-new-ad-campaign-targeting-democrats-gerrymandering%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=1226709&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<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>The Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) is launching a new ad campaign targeting Democrats on the issue of gerrymandering.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BNwaD1iA3v8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The ad<\/a>, first obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller, highlights Democrat-controlled gerrymandering in blue states like Oregon, Illinois and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/16\/larry-hogan-maryland-redistricting-congressional-maps-commission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maryland<\/a>, where new district lines are being drawn to grant Democrats an advantage ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. Leaders of the Democratic Party have frequently criticized Republicans for gerrymandering, and the Biden administration has taken legal action against some red states like Texas for how they handle their elections and district boundaries.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>\u201cDemocrats rail against gerrymandering unless they\u2019re the ones doing it,\u201d a narrator of the ad proclaims. \u201cAnd they\u2019re doing it all across the country \u2026 in order to gain power, Democrats do one thing and say another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ad also features quotes from former President Barack Obama and former Attorney General Eric Holder criticizing gerrymandering. Holder is the president of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC), a Democratic Party-aligned organization which campaigns and files lawsuits against Republican-drawn Congressional and legislative maps.<\/p>\n<p>The NDRC has filed lawsuits in Republican-controlled states such as <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/13\/ohio-supreme-court-redistricting-gerrymandering-gop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ohio<\/a> and North Carolina, but has legally defended gerrymandered maps in Oregon. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/06\/larry-hogan-gerrymandering-maryland-democrats-an-america-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Larry Hogan Backers Go After Democrats For \u2018Extreme\u2019 Gerrymandering)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the Department of Justice under Attorney General Merrick Garland <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/06\/department-of-justice-texas-lawsuit-redistricting-merrick-garland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sued the state of Texas<\/a> in December over its newly-proposed Congressional map. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/07\/merrick-garland-joe-biden-texas-election-abortion-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Garland also sued<\/a> Georgia over its new election law and filed a statement of interest in a Florida voting rights case, but has taken no meaningful action to curtail gerrymandering <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/23\/maryland-democrats-lawsuit-fair-maps-congressional-districts-2022-larry-hogan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in blue states<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookpolitical.com\/analysis\/house\/house-overview\/2022-house-overview-still-gop-advantage-redistricting-looks-wash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">According to the Cook Political Report<\/a>, there will likely be several more Biden-won Congressional districts in 2022 than there were in 2020 due to Democrat-controlled redistricting.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) is launching a new ad campaign targeting Democrats on the issue of gerrymandering.The ad, first obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller, highlights &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1226709","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\/1226709","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226709\/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=1226709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}