ALBANY — Newly proposed congressional maps drawn by Democrats may reduce New York’s present Republican delegation by half — eliminating at the least one upstate seat and jeopardizing three others.
The Democrat-controlled state Legislature unveiled plans Sunday to shrink the GOP’s eight seats to simply 4, based on a proposed redistricting map.
The brand new map eliminates the present upstate district held by GOP Rep. Claudia Tenney of Binghamton to account for inhabitants loss, creating a brand new twenty second District successfully cut up between the seats held by retiring GOP Rep. John Katko of Auburn and Democratic Rep. Antonio Delgado of Kingston.
“We’re assured,” stated the supply, “if these maps move, Claudia will run within the twenty third. Her household enterprise is in Chenango.”
A supply near Tenney instructed The Put up she is going to run for election within the newly configured twenty third District that retained parts of at the least 4 of the eight counties she presently represents — Broome, Tioga, Cortland and Chenango.
She may additionally run within the new twenty fourth District, which skews crimson, however the traces favor GOP Rep. Chris Jacobs of Geneseo and he’ll seemingly run for that seat, the supply stated.
Highly effective Home Republican Chair Elise Stefanik of Glens Falls can also be protected, with the redrawn traces favoring GOP voters.
However New York’s new 1st District held by GOP Rep. Lee Zeldin of Suffolk) — who's vacating his seat to run for governor in opposition to Gov. Kathy Hochul — would pattern additional blue, thus “creating an distinctive Dem pickup alternative,” tweeted Dave Wasserman of the Prepare dinner Political Report, the nationwide nonpartisan group that analyzes elections.
The district would change from Trump plus 4 to Biden plus 11.
“In contrast to Dems’ Illinois gerrymander, which was thrown collectively fairly sloppily on the final minute, I can solely discover just a few remoted locations the place this NY gerrymander ‘strands’ Dem votes in GOP districts – and even then, we’re speaking fractions of factors. It’s a brutal map for Rs,” he added.
New York is dropping one in every of its 27 Home seats due to the outcomes of the 2020 Census — which additionally diminished congressional delegations in six different states.
State Republican Get together Chairman Nick Langworthy slammed the plans as a “brazen and outrageous try at rigging the election to maintain Nancy Pelosi as speaker.”
“Democrats are circumventing the need of the folks,” he stated in a press release.
“For all of their phony protestations about transparency and equity in elections, what they’re doing is textbook filthy, partisan gerrymandering that's clearly in violation of the New York State Structure.
“We're reviewing all of our authorized choices to guard the voices of thousands and thousands of New Yorkers.”
As The Put up beforehand reported, the brand new Staten Island seat in NY-11 additionally poses a problem for incumbent Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis — extending the right-leaning Staten Island districts to incorporate liberal elements of Brooklyn, akin to Park Slope and Sundown Park.
Former President Donald Trump gained NY-11 by 10.5 factors in 2020.
If the brand new traces have been in place final yr, President Biden might have gained by almost 10 factors — and will have turned ex-Democratic ex-Rep. Max Rose’s defeat right into a potential victory. He outperformed Biden within the district, dropping by solely six share factors.
Reducing out a GOP member representing the 5 boroughs may additionally drawback New York Metropolis, as Republicans are on observe to achieve management of the Home subsequent yr, stated former GOP Rep. John Faso from upstate Kinderhook.
“It clearly hurts New York Metropolis as a result of the Home goes to flip to Republican management and with out a voice on the Republican facet, makes it harder to perform all of the targets we share: We wish safer communities, we wish higher infrastructure — we need to be sure New York is handled pretty,” he instructed The Put up.
“It’s not within the curiosity of New York state and New York Metropolis — simply merely the Democratic Get together. The those that introduced us bail reform introduced essentially the most gerrymandered districts in New York state historical past,” he added, referring to debate over the state’s controversial bail legal guidelines dividing Democrats.
The maps could possibly be voted on by lawmakers as early as Wednesday
Democrats within the Legislature gained management of the map-drawing course of following a breakdown in bipartisan negotiations earlier this month inside an unbiased redistricting fee that was mandated by a 2014 voter referendum to redraw the traces.
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