Add North Carolina to the list of Republican-controlled states that will redraw their congressional maps to help rig the 2026 midterm elections for the GOP.
State Senate leader Phil Berger, a Republican, said on Monday that he is calling the Republican-controlled legislature back into session next week to pass the new map, which could steal another U.S. House seat from Democrats.
"Earlier today [state House Speaker Destin Hall] and I agreed to return to Raleigh to back up [President Donald Trump] by redrawing our Congressional map in North Carolina to block blue state Democrats like [California Gov. Gavin Newsom] who want to take control of Congress from Republicans," Berger wrote in a post on X.
Of course, California is trying to redraw its maps only because Republicans in Texas heeded