The Democrat-controlled state Legislature unveiled plans Sunday to shrink the GOP’s eight seats to just four, according to a proposed redistricting map.
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- The new map eliminates the current upstate district held by GOP Rep. Claudia Tenney of Binghamton to account for population loss, creating a new 22nd District effectively split between the seats held by retiring GOP Rep. John Katko of Auburn and Democratic Rep. Antonio Delgado of Kingston.
“We’re confident,” said the source, “if these maps pass, Claudia will run in the 23rd. Her family business is in Chenango.”
- A source close to Tenney told The Post she will run for election in the newly configured 23rd District that retained portions of at least four of the eight counties she presently represents Broome, Tioga, Cortland and Chenango.
- She could also run in the new 24th District, which skews red, but the lines favor GOP Rep. Chris Jacobs of Geneseo and he’ll likely run for that seat, the source said.
- Powerful House Republican Chair Elise Stefanik of Glens Falls is also safe, with the redrawn lines favoring GOP voters.
- But New York’s new 1st District held by GOP Rep. Lee Zeldin of Suffolk) — who is vacating his seat to run for governor against Gov. Kathy Hochul would trend further blue, thus “creating an exceptional Dem pickup opportunity,” tweeted Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report, the national nonpartisan group that analyzes elections.
- The district would change from Trump plus 4 to Biden plus 11.
- “Unlike Dems’ Illinois gerrymander, which was thrown together pretty sloppily at the last minute, I can only find a few isolated places where this NY gerrymander ‘strands’ Dem votes in GOP districts – and even then, we’re talking fractions of points. It’s a brutal map for Rs,” he added.
- New York is losing one of its 27 House seats thanks to the results of the 2020 Census which also diminished congressional delegations in six other states.
SOURCE: NYPOST
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