JUST IN: Florida Redistricting Map Advances To Floor Vote, Elevating GOP Midterm Hopes

The Florida House Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting on Tuesday advanced Governor Ron DeSantis’s proposed congressional map in a 7-3 party-line vote. Tuesday’s vote will now set up a full floor vote, which could have a massive impact on control of the U.S. House of Representatives last year. The committee took up the map on the first day of a special legislative session called by the governor to consider mid-decade redistricting. Jason Poreda, a senior government analyst in the governor’s office, then presented the proposal and conducted a district-by-district review for committee members. He described the map as drawn without reference to racial data and noted that its overall compactness was comparable to the existing map. An attorney for the governor also addressed legal as