Tennessee Republicans passed an ambitious gerrymander that resulted in the biggest shakeup to the state's House delegation since 2010. The map dismantles the old TN-5 in order to create an 8-1 map that should most if not the entire decade. pic.twitter.com/4NfsdlQa2O
— Drew Savicki (@DrewSav) April 9, 2022
An urban county of 700,000 people that voted 65 pct for Biden and is 35 percent Black and Hispanic will henceforth be represented only by Republicans in Congress: https://t.co/HcqJKr2ra9
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) February 19, 2022
Democratic Rep. Jim Cooper will retire at the end of this year, after Tennessee Republicans shredded his Nashville-based district into three pieces in redistricting https://t.co/mzOeYiqVkp
— POLITICO (@politico) January 25, 2022
No surprise here, after new GOP map came out flipping #TN05 from Biden +24 to Trump +11. Cooper becomes the 29th House Dem to forgo reelection. https://t.co/vVppsVC8CH
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) January 25, 2022
It looks like this GOP proposal flips #TN05 from Biden +24 to ~Trump +9 – likely close enough to be competitive by the end of the decade, but would be a likely GOP pickup in 2022. https://t.co/DlzEuQNmea
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) January 12, 2022
Sad! 