{"id":6208,"date":"2021-09-28T16:21:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T16:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6208"},"modified":"2021-09-28T16:21:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T16:21:24","slug":"snakes-tentacles-and-dragons-gop-boosts-incumbents-with-new-texas-congressional-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6208","title":{"rendered":"‘Snakes, tentacles and dragons’: GOP boosts incumbents with new Texas congressional map"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Texas Republicans’ new congressional map shores up some two dozen of their incumbents while capitalizing on the GOP\u2019s newfound appeal among Latino voters by creating two new pickup opportunities in the Rio Grande Valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The end result of the map proposed on Monday: It will likely give Republicans control of at least 24 of the state\u2019s 38 congressional seats next November, with a good shot at one or two more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Yet while it blunts Democrats\u2019 suburban momentum by shredding up the purple areas around the state\u2019s major cities \u2014 one Democratic incumbent lambasted \u201clines shaped like snakes, tentacles, and dragons\u201d \u2014 the map should give Democrats between 12 and 14 of the seats, roughly the same as their current share.”  
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https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/09\/27\/gop-texas-congressional-map-514436<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Texas Republicans’ new congressional map shores up some two dozen of their incumbents while capitalizing on the GOP\u2019s newfound appeal among Latino voters by creating two new pickup opportunities in the Rio Grande Valley.<\/p>\n

The end result of the map proposed on Monday: It will likely give Republicans control of at least 24 of the state\u2019s 38 congressional seats next November, with a good shot at one or two more.<\/p>\n

Yet while it blunts Democrats\u2019 suburban momentum by shredding up the purple areas around the state\u2019s major cities \u2014 one Democratic incumbent lambasted \u201clines shaped like snakes, tentacles, and dragons\u201d \u2014 the map should give Democrats between 12 and 14 of the seats, roughly the same as their current share.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[542,198,1052,21],"class_list":["post-6208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-congress","tag-elections","tag-redistricting","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6209,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6208\/revisions\/6209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}