After setbacks, House Republicans finishing strong on redistricting

Republicans have been making a roaring fourth-quarter comeback in the redistricting process, eking out some last-minute victories that could offset some of the gains Democrats procured earlier in the year.
Legal triumphs in Ohio, Maryland, and New York during recent days have put the Democrats on their back feet and prompted the Cook Political Report to lower its estimate for Democrats’ net favorable seat gain to 1–2, down from the 4–5 estimate the group released weeks prior.

“I think that Democrats spent a lot of time crowing — they were spiking the football at the end of the third quarter. We knew then, like I’m saying now, that we were exactly where we thought we were going to be at this at that point,” Adam Kincaid, the president and executive director of the National Republican Redistricting Trust told the Washington Examiner.
Each seat is crucial to both parties in redistricting, the decennial line-drawing process after the nationwide census. House Republicans need to net five seats in the 435-member chamber to reclaim the majority the party lost in 2018.
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