GOP risks losing redistricting war if they ignore state races, group warns

(Politico) This year’s frantic mid-decade redistricting fight may be the new normal — and Republicans need to invest more into legislative races lest they fall behind on this new “permanent arms race,” argues a new memo from the party’s state-focused campaign arm shared first with POLITICO.

“The legislative level truly holds the key to the federal level,” Edith Jorge-Tuñón, president of the Republican State Leadership Committee, said in an interview.

In the Friday memo — which is being shared with GOP donors — Jorge-Tuñón repeatedly hits Democrats for gerrymandering blue states, arguing that they will continue to stretch their margins as much as possible. Republicans, too, have drawn increasingly favorable maps — and fired the first shot in this year’s battle with Texas — shrinking the number of swing House seats that ultimately determine control of the chamber.

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