{"id":1923912,"date":"2023-05-04T01:57:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T05:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/four-house-seats-democrats-could-lose-following-state-supreme-court-gerrymandering-decision\/"},"modified":"2023-05-04T02:01:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T06:01:35","slug":"four-house-seats-democrats-could-lose-following-state-supreme-court-gerrymandering-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/four-house-seats-democrats-could-lose-following-state-supreme-court-gerrymandering-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats may lose four House seats due to state Supreme Court&#8217;s gerrymandering decision."},"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\">26<\/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%2Ffour-house-seats-democrats-could-lose-following-state-supreme-court-gerrymandering-decision%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=1923912&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 class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<h2>North Carolina Republicans&#8217; 2024 Path Cleared for Partisan Gerrymandering<\/h2>\n<p>Get ready for some political maneuvering in North Carolina. The state Supreme Court recently overturned a past ruling that disallowed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosi-who-claims-to-oppose-gerrymandering-funnels-300000-to-democratic-gerrymandering-group\/\" title=\"Pelosi, Who Claims to Oppose Gerrymandering, Funnels 0,000 to Democratic Gerrymandering Group\">partisan gerrymandering<\/a>, paving the way for Republicans to create a map that more heavily favors their party in the upcoming 2024 elections.<\/p>\n<h3>The Ruling<\/h3>\n<p>The Republican-majority court effectively reversed a 2022 decision from the then-Democratic-controlled court that declared the Republican-drawn political districts as partisan gerrymanders, declaring states have no authority to counter districts drawn by the legislature.<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/courts\/north-carolina-supreme-court-partisan-gerrymandering-republicans-legislature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NORTH CAROLINA SUPREME COURT OVERTURNS RULING THAT DISALLOWED PARTISAN GERRYMANDERING<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>This ruling could have significant implications for North Carolina\u2019s current 7-7 House delegation, setting them up in 2024 to pass a new map and potentially removing four Democratic seats, which would give the GOP an 11-3 majority.<\/p>\n<h3>The Four Democratic Seats at Risk<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The 1st District<\/b>: The current representative controlling North Carolina\u2019s rural northeastern seat is Democrat Donald Davis, who beat Republican Sandy Smith in a 52.3% to 47.7% majority in the 2022 election.<\/li>\n<li><b>The 6th District<\/b>: The 6th district, located in the northern part of North Carolina, is currently occupied by Kathy Manning, the policy co-chair of the Democratic women&#8217;s caucus and member of the pro-abortion rights caucus.<\/li>\n<li><b>The 13th District<\/b>: In 2022, Democrat Wiley Nickel defeated Republican Bo Hines, in a 51.6% to 48.4% majority, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-w-smith-how-new-york-is-trying-to-gut-the-second-amendment-at-the-supreme-court\/\" title=\"Mark W. Smith: How New York is Trying to Gut the Second Amendment at the Supreme Court\">effectively flipping<\/a> the seat to blue for the first time since 2010.<\/li>\n<li><b>The 14th District<\/b>: The southwestern district, which was one of seven new House districts created by the 2020 census, is currently occupied by Democratic state Sen. Jeff Jackson.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Republicans are now most likely to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/four-house-seats-democrats-could-lose-following-state-supreme-court-gerrymandering-decision\/\" title=\"Democrats may lose four House seats due to state Supreme Court's gerrymandering decision.\">pursue similar restricting efforts<\/a> as they could draw up a new map at any time. The GOP may seek to create new Republican seats in the southwest while eliminating Democratic seats, potentially setting up for a rematch against Democratic incumbents.<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Democrats are on the defensive in 2024, as they seek to regain the House and hold on to their slim majority in the Senate.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina Republicans&#8217; 2024 path has been cleared following the state Supreme Court&#8217;s recent decision to overturn a past ruling that disallowed partisan gerrymandering, paving the way for the Republicans to create a map that more heavily favors their party. On April 28, the Republican-majority court effectively reversed a 2022 decision from the then-Democratic-controlled court<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1923913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[10123,4552,3685,22850,3653,8870,9491,4730],"class_list":["post-1923912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-courts","tag-decision","tag-democrats","tag-gerrymandering","tag-house","tag-lose","tag-seats","tag-supreme"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923912","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=1923912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1923913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}