UTAH EMERGES AS A PIVOTAL BATTLEGROUND AMID RACE TO REDRAW CONGRESSIONAL MAPS
✍️ Utah has emerged as a battleground in the national arms race over redistricting, with a judge ordering the state to redraw its congressional map to comply with a 2018 ballot initiative aimed at banning partisan gerrymandering.
👉 Utah has been ordered to redraw its congressional map to comply with a 2018 ballot initiative aimed at banning partisan gerrymandering.
👉 The redistricting campaign began in Texas, where Donald Trump declared he was entitled to five additional Republican House seats.
👉 Other states have been recruited into the redistricting fray, including California, where Democratic lawmakers are asking voters to retaliate with new congressional maps drawn to 'neutralize' Texas.
👉 The president has been candid about his aims: to safeguard Republicans' fragile hold on the House.
👉 A loss of the speaker's gavel would derail Trump's legislative ambitions in the second half of his term – and open the door to a wave of investigations.
👉 Deeply conservative Utah has been pulled into the redistricting fray not by the president but by a judge.
👉 The existing boundaries fracture Salt Lake City – a splash of blue in a sea of red – across all four congressional districts, effectively diluting Democrats' political influence.
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