{"id":1279594,"date":"2022-02-07T19:07:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T00:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1279594"},"modified":"2022-02-07T19:08:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T00:08:04","slug":"tennessee-governor-approves-redistricting-map-splitting-nashville-giving-gop-likely-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tennessee-governor-approves-redistricting-map-splitting-nashville-giving-gop-likely-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Governor Approves Redistricting Map Splitting Nashville, Giving GOP &#039;Likely&#039; Win"},"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\">22<\/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%2Ftennessee-governor-approves-redistricting-map-splitting-nashville-giving-gop-likely-win%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=1279594&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\/2022\/02\/TN-Gov.-Bill-Lee-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) approved the&nbsp;once-a-decade redistricting maps on Sunday, splitting the state\u2019s capital,&nbsp;Nashville, into&nbsp;multiple congressional seats, a move that would help Republicans likely secure another seat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder the newly drawn maps, Nashville will be split into three seats. This will likely make any Democrat a significant underdog against a Republican,\u201d the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/elections-tennessee-nashville-memphis-congress-4714b0fddf95915b81962aef3a93f009\">reported<\/a>.<\/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>The state\u2019s current House delegation consists of&nbsp;seven Republicans and two Democrats \u2014 both covering Nashville and Memphis. The Republicans used the once-a-decade&nbsp;redistricting process to break up the congressional district that covers&nbsp;Nashville after remaining&nbsp;intact for 200 years.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Ultimately, Nashville will not have&nbsp;as much influence in the House now that it will be divided into three districts. Due to this, Tennessee\u2019s Democratic Party promised to sue and go to court over the newly approved plan, but it will be an uphill battle for them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTennessee also lacks the kind of state requirements that advocates in Ohio, for one, have used in recent redistricting challenge wins,\u201d AP stated, noting that the since the subject was taken up ten years ago, the \u201cU.S. Supreme Court has taken a hands-off approach on partisan redistricting maps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, splitting the congressional district into three districts will cause problems for the Democrats looking to keep the slim House majority since Republicans only need to&nbsp;net at least five seats across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The seat\u2019s fate was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/25\/pelosis-majority-crumbles-16-term-democrat-rep-jim-cooper-will-not-run-reelection\/\">ultimately sealed<\/a> after Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN), the 16-term Democrat who currently occupies the seat, became the twenty-ninth member of his party to announce&nbsp;plans to leave the&nbsp;House after this year. Cooper, who would have faced a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/24\/report-tennessee-democrat-rep-jim-cooper-considers-retirement-due-to-redistricting\/\">likely<\/a>\u201d defeat in a reelection battle, blamed his decision on the state\u2019s&nbsp;General Assembly and the&nbsp;once-in-a-decade redistricting process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite my strength at the polls, I could not stop the&nbsp;General Assembly from dismembering Nashville. No&nbsp;one tried harder to keep our city whole,\u201d Cooper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/25\/pelosis-majority-crumbles-16-term-democrat-rep-jim-cooper-will-not-run-reelection\/\">said<\/a> at the time. \u201cI explored every&nbsp;possible way, including lawsuits, to stop the&nbsp;gerrymandering and to win one of the three new&nbsp;congressional districts that now divide Nashville.\u201d<\/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>Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) approved the\u00a0once-a-decade redistricting maps on Sunday, splitting the state\u2019s capital,\u00a0Nashville, into\u00a0multiple congressional seats, a move that would help Republicans likely secure another seat. \u201cUnder the &#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-1279594","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\/1279594","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=1279594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279594\/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=1279594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1279594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}