Rigged maps

From the North Carolina Democratic Party:

Folks, the Republicans in the NCGA have officially passed the rigged maps to secure Donald Trump a congressional seat in 2026. An 11–3 map in a 50–50 state is political theft, plain and simple.

HOW WE GOT HERE:

• In 2023, the Republican-majority North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that partisan gerrymandering is once again legal. Republicans immediately went to work to take our evenly-split, 7-Democrat 7-Republican maps and distort them to give the GOP a 10-4 majority. Every seat became heavily Democrat or heavily Republican except for one: North Carolina’s first congressional district, which in 2024 re-elected Democratic Congressman Don Davis despite being redrawn to be R+3. 

  
  

• In 2025, Donald Trump’s unpopular agenda has Republicans dreading the electoral consequences coming in the 2026 midterm elections, so they’re scrambling to rig congressional maps across the country to steal enough seats from Democrats to keep their majority next year. North Carolina Republicans are trading petty political favors with Donald Trump; it’s been reported that they’re giving him one of our congressional districts in exchange for endorsements.

  
  

BAD PROCESS, BAD POLITICS:

• There was no public notice. Maps were revealed on Friday and then the only public comment period was scheduled for Tuesday. On Sunday, it was moved to Monday at the last minute. Republicans are rushing the process because they’re trying to avoid accountability from the people they’re disenfranchising.

  
  

• North Carolina is a purple state, and this map is anything but. Roughly half of North Carolinians vote for Democrats, roughly half for Republicans. When a court ordered an independent, nonpartisan redraw of our gerrymandered maps in 2022, the districts were drawn to reflect how North Carolina votes. Seven safe Republican districts, six safe Democratic districts, and one competitive district that leaned Republican—but that a Democrat could (and did!) win. An 11-3 map is a mockery of North Carolina voters’ right to a “free and fair election.”

  
  

• North Carolina Republicans know that if they asked the voters of North Carolina for permission to draw this map, they’d say no. 84% of North Carolina voters believe that partisan gerrymandering is unacceptable.

SO WHAT'S NEXT?