DeSantis Reveals New Florida Congressional Map Giving GOP Four Extra Seats
“Drawing maps based on race, which is reflected in our current congressional districts, is unconstitutional and should be prohibited.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis unveiled a redrawn congressional map that would net the GOP four additional seats.
If approved, the state will use it in the 2026 midterms.
🚨 JUST IN — Florida Governor @RonDeSantis dropped a BRAND NEW redistricted congressional map for Florida.
Republicans would pick up an additional FOUR SEATS! pic.twitter.com/Illiyfaxik
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) April 27, 2026
“Florida got shortchanged in the 2020 Census, and we’ve been fighting for fair representation ever since,” DeSantis told Fox News in an interview. “Our population has since grown dramatically, and we have moved from a Democrat majority to a 1.5 million Republican advantage. Drawing maps based on race, which is reflected in our current congressional districts, is unconstitutional and should be prohibited.”
The map still has 28 Congressional districts. The redrawn districts reflect population shifts.
Republicans hold 20 seats compared to seven Democratic seats. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick recently resigned, leaving an eighth Democratic seat vacant.
The new map shows Congressional districts 10, 23, 20, and 24 lean Democrat.
Florida lawmakers will return to Tallahassee for a redistricting special session.
Republicans hold the majority in Florida’s state legislature, which means it shouldn’t be a problem passing the map.
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This map actually looks reasonable unless most maps drawn in democratic controlled states.
Sadly, I live in the Disney blue spot.
You live next to The Rat. I am sorry. :<)
Its all of the pedophiles working for Disney that make the District solid Blue.
Disney World has about 80,000 employees. A small minority of them are LGBTQ (mostly in the artistic fields). Some minority of those may be pedophiles. Many true Christians work there. I know several.
People who fling the word “pedophile” around are mostly leftists who are so ignorant that they don’t know its meaning. It’s just a curse word they like to use. Don’t be like a leftist.
In Florida, Orlando is a big city. Big cities seem to attract Democrats.
Every time FL busts a ring of pedos, there are always Disney employees caught.
Same reason pedos gravitate towards being elementary school teachers. They go where the kids are.
And Disney, which pushes grooming throughout the entire western world, consistently fails (likely due to lack of interest) in controlling the problem.
So, yeah, there are a lot of good people working for Disney. There are also a vastly higher % of actual pedos working there than you’ll find just about anywhere.
I ran your first sentence through Grok, and it came up with this:
“CNN 2014 investigation: At least 35 Disney employees arrested since 2006 on charges involving child sex crimes, soliciting minors, or child pornography. This covered various theme park roles; some arrests tied to stings. Universal and SeaWorld employees also appeared in similar operations.”
Any number greater than zero is too many, but you’re exaggerating wildly.
And a liberal, democrat activist Judge enjoins the state of Florida from implementing the new congressional map in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .
Y’all know it’s gonna happen.
Redistrict with only 1 seat for political opposition like virginia.
Where was the constitutional amendment for this? Seems to directly contradict the constitution.
SECTION 20. Standards for establishing congressional district boundaries.—In establishing congressional district boundaries:
(a) No apportionment plan or individual district shall be drawn with the intent to favor or disfavor a political party or an incumbent; and districts shall not be drawn with the intent or result of denying or abridging the equal opportunity of racial or language minorities to participate in the political process or to diminish their ability to elect representatives of their choice; and districts shall consist of contiguous territory.
OK, so in that case they can’t deliberately draw the districts for partisan advantage. But they can and must draw them to comply with federal law and the US constitution, so if Callais comes out the way we hope they will have to redraw, and the likely outcome will automatically be good for the Reps, because the Dems current 20-8 split depends on the law requiring racial gerrymandering, so if that’s struck down then they’ll naturally drop in numbers.
“favor or disfavor a political party”
The current map was drawn to favor a political party. So was the previous map. And literally EVERY map prior.
Every map that has ever existed in every State was drawn to favor a political party – save only those states that only have 1 Congressman.
What this provision actually does is give the FL State Supreme Court free rein to approve or veto any map they like, or dislike, based entirely on THEIR OWN political affiliation. It effectively hands control of redistricting from the State legislature, which the US Constitution specifically grants sole power on this issue to, to the State Courts – which shouldn’t have any role in this whatsoever.
It is complete BS and should be removed from the Constitution by amendment.
Moving from 20-8 to 24-4. Good. And if Dems try any more shenanigans, make it 27-1, like in VA.
I agree!
So if I understand this correctly, DeSantis has decided to stop waiting for SCOTUS to decide whether apportioning districts by race is A) mandatory, or B) forbidden, and told them he’s going to decide on B all by himself?
Pretty much, yes.
But everyone already knows the results of the Callais decision because the result’s been leaked.
We also know the only reason the decision hasn’t been published is because the corrupt political activist Democrats on the court are slow walking the dissent for the sole purpose of preventing R States from redistricting prior to the mid-terms.
As always, the fictional “non-political” branch of government is by far the most political.
Yeah pretty much. IMO what’s happening is DeSantis wants the ‘new map’ in place so that when/if SCOTUS releases its decision re ‘majority minority’ CD Florida has a map ready to go. If nothing else it gets max litigation time before ’28 to defend v inevitable opposition.