The Democrats didn’t flip a single state legislature going into a post-Census redistricting year.
Republicans said they hope to consolidate their power in the drawing of 30 state electoral maps next year. Democrats are preparing for a decadelong fight.
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“ Democrats may have won the presidency, but they failed to fulfill one of their biggest hopes of this election cycle: taking control of state legislatures and the power to draw electoral districts.
Now, organizers and party officials said, they will be forced to bank on litigation, friendly state courts, Democratic governors, recent state reforms and a growing grassroots movement to hold the line against their fears of Republican gerrymandering — embedding a political advantage in the drawing of electoral maps.”