{"id":136487,"date":"2025-10-22T09:30:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thencbeat.com\/?p=136487"},"modified":"2025-10-22T09:30:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:30:03","slug":"north-carolina-gerrymandering-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/22\/north-carolina-gerrymandering-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Shady Republicans In Raleigh New Gerrymandered Map To Be Voted On By House Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 data-start=\"128\" data-end=\"303\"><strong data-start=\"128\" data-end=\"303\">The North Carolina gerrymandering map is drawing heat statewide as critics accuse Republicans of carving up Black and Democratic communities to cement power ahead of 2026.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"272\" data-end=\"476\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">On Tuesday, the <strong data-start=\"301\" data-end=\"326\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/tag\/north-carolina\">North Carolina<\/a> <\/em><\/strong><em>Senate<\/em> voted 26\u201320 along party lines to pass a brand-new congressional redistricting map that is screaming <em data-start=\"446\" data-end=\"473\">GERRYMANDERED.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"478\" data-end=\"725\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The GOP wasted no time twisting district lines to make sure <em>Democrats<\/em>, especially Black voters, stay fighting uphill battles.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"732\" data-end=\"792\"><strong data-start=\"736\" data-end=\"792\"> REPUBLICANS WANT AN 11\u20133 REPUBLICAN HOUSE SPLIT<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"794\" data-end=\"989\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This is a straight up power grab in plain sight. <em>Republicans<\/em> are scared, trying to avoid accountability and wants to stretch their current 10\u20134 U.S. House advantage into a near lock of 11\u20133 before the 2026 elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_136496\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-136496\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_4696-3.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-136496 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_4696-3-1024x662.jpg\" alt=\"NC House split gerrymandered districts color coded map\" width=\"1024\" height=\"662\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-136496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">North Carolina\u2019s newly approved congressional map redraws boundaries across key counties, strengthening GOP control ahead of the 2026 midterms.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p data-start=\"991\" data-end=\"1357\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Their main target is <a href=\"https:\/\/dondavis.house.gov\/\"><strong data-start=\"1010\" data-end=\"1050\">Congressman Don Davis\u2019s <\/strong><\/a>1st District \u2014 a seat long known for its strong Black voter base and swing potential.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_136498\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-136498\" style=\"width: 683px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_4699-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-136498 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_4699-3-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Robinson NC gubernatorial candidate official photo\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-136498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new North Carolina map could make Don Davis\u2019s 1st District more competitive, threatening a longtime Democratic seat in the state\u2019s northeast.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p data-start=\"991\" data-end=\"1357\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The GOP redrew those lines so tight it\u2019s like they were tailoring it for <a href=\"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/tag\/donald-trump\"><em><strong>Donald Trum<\/strong><\/em><strong>p<\/strong><\/a> himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_136497\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-136497\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_4694-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-136497 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_4694-2-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"North Carolina redistricting map Republicans Democrats\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-136497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">North Carolina\u2019s newly approved congressional map redraws boundaries across key counties, strengthening GOP control ahead of the 2026 midterms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p data-start=\"991\" data-end=\"1357\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> Counties with strong Democratic turnout and large Black populations were <em data-start=\"1300\" data-end=\"1311\">magically<\/em> snatched out and swapped with redder areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1576\" data-end=\"1810\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Republicans claim they didn\u2019t use race \u2014 just<em> \u201cpolitical data.\u201d BS.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2059\" data-end=\"2274\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Since<strong data-start=\"2069\" data-end=\"2096\"><a href=\"https:\/\/governor.nc.gov\/josh-stein\"> Governor Josh Stein<\/a> (D)<\/strong> can\u2019t veto redistricting bills in North Carolina, the GOP pretty much ran this play unbothered.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2330\" data-end=\"2509\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">After the vote, Democrats and civil rights advocates lit Raleigh up. Groups called it \u201ca racial and political heist\u201d and \u201cmodern-day voter suppression.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"94\" data-end=\"416\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Beginning at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, the North Carolina House is scheduled to hold floor debate and votes on proposed congressional boundaries that, if approved, could make it harder for Democratic U.S. Rep. Don Davis, who represents more than 20 counties in northeastern North Carolina, to win reelection next year.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North Carolina gerrymandering map is drawing heat statewide as critics accuse Republicans of carving up Black and Democratic communities to cement power ahead of 2026. &nbsp; On Tuesday, the North Carolina Senate voted 26\u201320 along party lines to pass a brand-new congressional redistricting map that is screaming GERRYMANDERED. The GOP wasted no time twisting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,45],"tags":[7627,7530,848,7476,7628,28,30,7629],"class_list":["post-136487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-carolina-news","category-raleigh-news","tag-don-davis","tag-gop-redistricting","tag-josh-stein","tag-nc-politics","tag-north-carolina-gerrymandering-map","tag-north-carolina-news","tag-raleigh-news","tag-voter-suppression"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thencbeat.thecodetechnologies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}