An independent and a Democrat voted for the 5R/1D map at the committee level in the House of Representatives. This could be over, barring a successful VRA lawsuit. Republicans are 2 seats below the veto override threshold.
Ugh, gonna be sad if we get Missouri'd. Which Democrat was it?
Thr Dems have had just so much winning with redistricting cycle, winning just about everything that was not nailed down with a couple of very slight hiccups in MT, AZ, and CO that are worth maybe a half seat each for the Pubs, that Trump must be consumed with envy. But the winning stops in LA. The governor's veto will be be overridden 71-34, and team Elias will lose the claim that that line dance CD chopping into Baton Rouge and Shreveport to pick up the black neighborhoods is a second compact Gingles CD. So it is time to move on from this state. There is nothing more to see here. The apostate "Tory" Dem represents a Pub bastion, the independent that went Pub is also parked in a Pub bastion, and another independent represents a district Trump won by 18 points (district 62), whom I sure knows which way the wind is blowing.
The Dems will get the third independent to vote no, a trial lawyer in district 85 who represents accused criminals, that Biden won by 10 points that is trending Dem. He calls himself fiscally conservative and socially liberal. Whites make up 37% of the voting age population, a percentage that is dropping as they are being switched out with Hispanics, with blacks holding steady at about 35%. He is a pal of the governor. This assumes that district 85 was not gutted in the proposed map. If it was made substantially more Pub, then maybe he would vote to override. He is highly respected by both parties. But I doubt his district was messed with.
