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« on: December 17, 2019, 12:04:20 PM »

Namely -Texas, Arizona, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minnesota, and Iowa, with possibilities of increasing Democratic numbers in other state legislatures:

Democrats plan ‘unprecedented’ effort to flip state legislative chambers in 2020 state races

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DLCC leaders say their top targets next year will be flipping both chambers of legislatures in Arizona, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, while also winning control of House chambers in Iowa, Texas and Michigan and the Senate chamber in Minnesota. The organization also plans to work closely with groups that plan to heavily contest races in other states.

In Florida, former Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum has teamed up with the Forward Majority political committee to make a major push to win legislative seats in Florida. Republicans hold 73 out of 120 seats in the Florida House of Representatives and 23 of the 40 Senate seats.

(…) In many cases, Democratic targets for state legislative victories closely align with the expected battleground states in the presidential contest. That overlay is helping Democrats organize earlier than usual in those states, while energizing the party’s national network of volunteers, said Catherine Vaughan, a leader of Swing Left and Flippable, both of which formed after the 2016 election.

And for anyone interested, here's a direct link to the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee:

https://www.dlcc.org/



AZ and MN make a lot of sense, but FL and IA are not really winnable for them, and even PA is a very uphill battle considering that they will almsot certainly lose some conservative seats in Central/West PA (the seat in Johnstown or HD123 for example)

Eh Iowa is probably worth the long shot coz its pretty close overall. Just hold some of the tougher districts and spend a few hundred grand in some seats and you flip the state house.
It's really not worth it in terms of redistricting, though.

It actually is. While IA has a commission for relatively fair maps, a trifecta can ignore their requests and draw their own gerrymander. By taking an IA state chamber, we can secure the commission's ability to provide a fair map.
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