NH GOP divided on gerrymandering

For months, New Hampshire has been ensnared in one of the nation’s most intense intraparty redistricting melees over a congressional redistricting map.
New Hampshire’s ruling Republican Party has been wrangling, at times publicly, over whether it should forge one safe seat for itself while ceding the other to the Democrats or preserve the competitiveness of the state’s two seats at the risk of losing them both.

Effectively dividing the pair of House seats along party lines would be a huge departure from the state’s redistricting traditions, in which the contours of both have largely remained the same since the 1880s.
With only two House seats at stake, New Hampshire’s Republican-on-Republican redistricting fight would seem relatively insignificant compared to titanic political line-drawing struggles in large population states such as Florida, New York, North Carolina, and Ohio. But every seat counts in the fight for House control. House Republicans only need to net five seats in the 435-member chamber to reclaim the majority they lost in 2018.
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