This week, the Florida Legislature will address redistricting, looking to put more Republicans in Congress
The original plan was a possible pickup of 1 or 2 congressional seats from the Democrats. Now that number has increased to at least 5.
But some conservatives feel the Florida GOP may get too greedy, and that may hurt them.
“(Florida) Democrats are pretty much concentrated compact in these urban areas, so if Republicans were to try to squeeze out another few seats, that could potentially spread Republicans too thin and result in more democratic seats in a blue wave,” Allysia Finley of the Wall St. Journal’s Editorial Board.
Finley says you’re seeing that independent voters are overwhelmingly shifting to the Democratic Party.
Well-known GOP analyst Karl Rove tells Fox News that the Florida redistricting plan comes with some risk.
“Because what they’re going to do is they’re going to have to take Republican votes out of Republican districts and put them into Democrat districts,” Rove said on Fox & Friends. “And that’s going to lower the numbers for some incumbent Republicans, and they may lose a seat or two,”
Dan Henniger of the Wall Street Journal says the back-and-forth over state redistricting shows why there is so much polarization and constant political fighting in the U.S.
“This is the reason that these people with safe seats in the House have no reason to compromise or do any deals on anything, and our politics just degrades more and more,” said Henninger.
