NDRC Statement on Governor DeSantis’s Congressional Gerrymander Proposal

Washington, D.C. — As reported by FOX News, Governor Ron DeSantis revealed a proposal this morning to re-gerrymander Florida’s congressional map and steal four additional seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

“This map is a gerrymander stacked on top of an already egregious gerrymander that silences millions of Floridians and amounts to an abuse of power designed to benefit Donald Trump, DeSantis, and the Republican Party,” said John Bisognano, President of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC). “The backroom rollout we saw today exemplifies exactly how little transparency and accountability this process will have, and without anything resembling a sound rationale to justify this redraw, Florida Republicans could not have made it more clear that this is a nakedly partisan maneuver.  If they pass this map, Republicans should expect an avalanche of legal challenges.”

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