North Carolina Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) waits ahead of Gov. Josh Stein's State of the State address in the House chamber on March 12, 2025. (Photo: Galen Bacharier/NC Newsline)
Senate President Pro-tem Phil Berger acknowledged on social media Thursday that he would be open to North Carolina redrawing congressional district maps this year if necessary.
In August, President Donald Trump asked Texas to redraw the state’s congressional district to help Republicans win five additional seats in the U.S. House. When Texas agreed to the maneuver, California Gov. Gavin Newsom responded with a pledge to redraw his own state’s maps, creating additional seats for congressional Democrats. Newsom is also seeking a special election that would allow California to bypass its independent redistricting commission and enact a new map.
With Texas and California in play for 2026, multiple other states have indicated they may also redraw their maps, rather than wait for the next redistricting cycle, typically at the start of each decade.
Berger said he’s been closely watching what’s going on in California, accusing Democrats of trying to steal the narrow Republican-majority in Congress.
“We have drawn four Congressional maps in the last six years in redistricting fights with Democrats because of their sue-until-blue strategy,” Berger wrote on X. “If we have to draw one more map this year, we will.”
Berger denied speaking to Trump about the possibility of redrawing North Carolina’s congressional map or seeking an endorsement. Berger is locked in a tight primary challenge against Sam Page, the longtime Rockingham County sheriff.
Berger said an unsubstantiated rumor that he might redraw the first congressional district seat currently held by Rep. Don Davis (NC-01) to favor a Republican was blatantly false.
“The Democrats are spreading lies to hurt President Trump,” Berger wrote.
U.S. Rep. Deborah Ross (NC-02) said if the reports of new redistricting plans in the North Carolina General Assembly are true, Republicans have stooped to a new low.
“From Texas to Missouri and now North Carolina, Republicans are waging a war on American voting rights because they know the truth – their policies are unpopular, their candidates are unlikable, and they can’t win a majority in Congress without stacking the deck in their favor,” said Ross in a statement.
It is not unusual for the president’s party to lose seats in a mid-term election. Redrawing the maps would be a way of limiting losses for Trump, and perhaps keeping control of the Congress.
“We will fight these corrupt redistricting plans in every single state,” Ross wrote. “We will fight for our democracy and for American voters who are tired of corrupt leaders silencing their voices.”
North Carolina Democratic Party Chair Anderson Clayton said news reports of further gerrymandering by the Senate leader amounted to a ‘slimy backroom deal.’
“Berger is once again doing what he’s always done: changing the rules, sabotaging the will of the people, and holding critical priorities like Medicaid hostage in a desperate attempt to cling to power,” Clayton said in a statement released by the party.
Berger campaigned in Concord Wednesday with Vice President JD Vance, two days after passing Iryna’s Law, an expansive crime bill that creates a new path to resume the death penalty.
North Carolina’s current congressional delegation in the U.S. House consists of 10 Republicans and four Democrats. The first congressional district is the state’s only competitive House seat.
The 2024 contest between incumbent Democrat Don Davis and Republican challenger Laurie Buckhout was North Carolina’s most expensive congressional race with the two raising more than $10 million.
The Cook Political Report lists Davis as one of the most vulnerable Democrats in the country.
This is a developing story.
SL 2023-145 Congress - 11 x 17 Map(4)Republicans currently hold 10 of North Carolina’s 14 seats in the U.S. House.
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