{"id":1257006,"date":"2022-01-30T21:08:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T02:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1257006"},"modified":"2022-01-30T21:08:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T02:08:38","slug":"new-york-democrats-unveil-new-congressional-map-that-is-brutal-for-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-democrats-unveil-new-congressional-map-that-is-brutal-for-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Democrats Unveil New Congressional Map That Is \u2018Brutal\u2019 For Republicans"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fnew-york-democrats-unveil-new-congressional-map-that-is-brutal-for-republicans%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=1257006&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>Democrats in New York proposed a new congressional map Sunday that could eliminate half of the state\u2019s Republicans in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/newyork.redistrictingandyou.org\/?districtType=cd&amp;propA=current_2012&amp;propB=congress_latfor_20220130&amp;selected=-74.122,40.582&amp;opacity=2#%26map=6.02\/43.456\/-76.098\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new lines<\/a> give Democrats an advantage in 22 of the state\u2019s 26 congressional districts ahead of November\u2019s midterm elections. Despite their advantage, however, the map may be less aggressive than what some Democrats, including lawyer Marc Elias, previously <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marceelias\/status\/1486475904062828545\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">supported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The map comes amid a battle for control of the House, with Democrats hoping to preserve their narrow advantage while Republicans target over two-dozen Democratic seats. While New York\u2019s map helps Democrats keep their majority, it could be offset by likely Republican-advantaged maps in Texas, Florida and Georgia. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/05\/cook-political-report-david-wasserman-congress-redistricting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Top House Forecaster: Republicans\u2019 Redistricting Advantage Hardly Panned Out)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dave Wasserman, a senior editor at the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, said that New York\u2019s proposed map was such an effective gerrymander that it only wasted Democratic votes in \u201ca few isolated places.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven then, we\u2019re talking fractions of points,\u201d Wasserman&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Redistrict\/status\/1487923726754717697\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s a brutal map for Rs.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: here is NY Dems\u2019 full congressional proposal, courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zach_solomon1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@zach_solomon1<\/a>. This is a 22D-4R gerrymander \u2013 and a pretty effective one. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QleEKPMJy8\">https:\/\/t.co\/QleEKPMJy8<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yd7Iqx6DPh\">pic.twitter.com\/yd7Iqx6DPh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Redistrict\/status\/1487919405971423234?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 30, 2022<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The new map effectively eliminates the Republican-leaning districts now held by Reps. Lee Zeldin, Nicole Malliotakis and Claudia Tenney. It also shores up Democratic-leaning seats belonging to Reps. Antonio Delgado and Sean Patrick Maloney, who chairs the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/11\/republican-north-carolina-congressional-map-court-ruling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Republicans Notch Big Win As Court Upholds North Carolina\u2019s New Congressional Map)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While it preserves the seats belonging to Rep. Tom Reed, who is retiring, Andrew Garbarino and Elise Stefanik, the no. 3 Republican in the House, it turns them into GOP vote sinks, consolidating Republican voters in their districts to maximize Democratic gains elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>New York is one of multiple northern states losing a congressional seat for the coming decade due to its relatively slow population growth, joining states like <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\">Michigan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/14\/ohio-supreme-court-republican-congressional-map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ohio<\/a>, <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 Pennsylvania. Unless Republican groups wage a successful lawsuit that results in New York\u2019s map being thrown out, it will remain in place until 2032.<\/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>Democrats in New York proposed a new congressional map Sunday that could eliminate half of the state\u2019s Republicans in the House of Representatives.The new lines give Democrats an advantage in &#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-1257006","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\/1257006","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=1257006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257006\/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=1257006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}