On Tuesday, North Carolina’s Republican-led state legislature got closer to approving new congressional district lines, part of a nationwide scheme by Republicans and President Donald Trump’s political team to stop Democrats from potentially gaining control of Congress following the upcoming 2026 midterms.

Democrats are hoping to win enough seats to take control of the U.S. House of Representatives, as the split between the two parties is currently very narrow. Typically, the opposition of the incumbent party of the president fares very well in these elections — in 2022, for example, Republicans wrested control of Congress from Democrats after former President Joe Biden’s 2020 win, and in 2018 Democrats did the same, ousting dozens of Republicans two years following Trump’s 2016 preside

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