Republican legislative leaders in North Carolina unveiled a mid-decade redistricting proposal aimed at drawing out Rep. Don Davis (D-N.C.) ahead of an expected vote next week.
Under the current map, Davis’s 1st District voted Democratic in the 2020 presidential race by a little over 1%. The new map redraws it to create a district that voted roughly 55% Republican to 44% Democratic in the 2024 presidential election — putting him at a more than 10 percentage point deficit.
U.S. Rep. Don Davis (Photo: Lynn Bonner/NC Newsline)This represents Republicans’ second attempt to draw Davis out, after a new map drawn in 2023 changed his district to one that voted 52% to 46% in favor of Republicans in the 2022 U.S. Senate campaign. But Davis still won reelection in 2024 by a margin of about 50% to 48%.
Under the new map, the 11th Congressional District held by Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.) is set to become the closest in the state, with a margin of just under 54% Republican votes to 44% Democratic in the 2024 presidential race. It would be the only district in the state decided by less than 10% of the vote, leaving North Carolina with no swing districts.
Davis did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The map comes three days after House Speaker Destin Hall (R-Caldwell) and Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) announced an agreement to draw up a new map, responding to President Donald Trump’s call to Republicans across the country to eliminate Democratic seats wherever possible to help maintain Republican control of the U.S. House in the 2026 midterms.
“President Trump earned a clear mandate from the voters of North Carolina and the rest of the country, and we intend to defend it by drawing an additional Republican Congressional seat,” Hall said in a statement Monday.
North Carolina Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger (R-Rockingham). (Photo: Galen Bacharier/NC Newsline)“The #NCGA is ready to help Republicans secure Congress and move @realDonaldTrump’s agenda forward!” Berger wrote in a statement on social media after the map’s release Thursday.
Democratic leaders in the state and around the country have condemned the move as antidemocratic. House Democratic Leader Robert Reives (D-Chatham) called it “stealing a congressional district” while Gov. Josh Stein said Monday that the state’s Republicans are “failing you, the voters.”
“These shameless politicians are abusing their power to take away yours. I will always fight for you because the voters should choose their representatives, not the other way around,” Stein said in a statement.
Hall’s office stated in a press release announcing public comment has opened on the map that both the House and Senate expect to consider it next week. Only a simple majority is required to pass the new map, which Republicans easily hold in both chambers, and it is not subject to the governor’s veto — rendering the map’s passage a foregone conclusion.
A poll of North Carolina voters conducted in September found that large majorities in both parties oppose gerrymandering in North Carolina, including 87% of Democrats and 78% of Republicans.
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