Despite intervening the last time Florida redraw its congressional map, Gov. Ron DeSantis is leaving it up to the Legislature to take the lead on what a potential mid-decade redraw might look like.

For now.

“There’s nothing that anyone on my staff has done with respect to actually doing a map,” DeSantis said in Tampa.

But that doesn’t mean a product isn’t coming soon.

“We’re going to be forced to do it, I think, because the Supreme Court’s (Voting Rights Act) decision is going to impact the current map. So just no matter what else happens, that is going to have to be addressed,” DeSantis added, alluding to a potential ruling in Louisiana v. Callais this year that could overturn prohibitions against racial gerrymandering and invalidate districts drawn to protect minority acc

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