Florida Republicans Officially Start Gerrymandering Process In Apparent Effort to Gain More Seats Before Midterms

Alex Griffing Aug 7th, 2025, 4:04 pm

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Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez (R) announced on Thursday afternoon that he was putting together a Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting, officially beginning the process to try and further gerrymander the state in an apparent effort to benefit the GOP in the 2026 midterms.

Perez made his announcement in a memo, which comes amid an ongoing battle in Texas’s state House to approve a new map that the GOP believes could net it 5 more seats in Congress. President Donald Trump urged Texas Republicans to further gerrymander the state in a bid to keep the House next November, saying Republicans are “e

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