“There is a fundamentally increased focus on redistricting than there was in 2011, and yet as we talk about the For the People Act, people are not talking about the gerrymandering components and the importance of them,” says Eric Holder, the former attorney general who founded National Democratic Redistricting Committee to combat GOP gerrymandering efforts.“There’s no question Texas, Georgia, Florida, and North Carolina are enough to give Republicans the number of seats they need to win back the House,” This is the GOP plan to win back power in 2022. Republicans control most of that process in most of the states around the country. “That alone should get us the majority back.” Time is running out for Senate Democrats to act. States could put new maps in place by early fall, and those maps will govern congressional elections for the next decade."
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