{"id":28295,"date":"2024-12-12T12:41:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T12:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/12\/did-gerrymandering-keep-republicans-from-a-bigger-majority-absolutely-not-david-daley\/"},"modified":"2024-12-12T12:41:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T12:41:13","slug":"did-gerrymandering-keep-republicans-from-a-bigger-majority-absolutely-not-david-daley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/12\/did-gerrymandering-keep-republicans-from-a-bigger-majority-absolutely-not-david-daley\/","title":{"rendered":"Did gerrymandering keep Republicans from a bigger majority? Absolutely not | David Daley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Johnson has an explanation for why the Republican majority is so thin \u2013 and it\u2019s misleading and cynical<\/p>\n<p>Mike Johnson. the House Speaker, will soon have the challenge of leading a three-seat Republican majority. He has an interesting theory about why the Republican edge will be so slender. Last week, on Fox News, he <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/12\/04\/us-news\/razor-thin-republican-house-majority-could-cripple-trumps-agenda-after-democrats-nab-last-seat\/\">blamed<\/a> <em>Democratic<\/em> gerrymandering.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s always a delightful surprise to hear a Republican leader express concern about the evils of gerrymandering, Johnson has the facts and the math completely backwards.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/davedaley3\">David Daley<\/a> is the author of the new book Antidemocratic: Inside the Right\u2019s 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections as well as Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn\u2019t Count<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/dec\/12\/republican-majority-gerrymandering\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Johnson has an explanation for why the Republican majority is so thin \u2013 and it\u2019s misleading and cynical Mike Johnson. the House Speaker, will soon have the challenge of leading a three-seat Republican majority. He has an interesting theory about why the Republican edge will be so slender. Last week, on Fox News, he &#8230; <a title=\"Did gerrymandering keep Republicans from a bigger majority? Absolutely not | David Daley\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/12\/did-gerrymandering-keep-republicans-from-a-bigger-majority-absolutely-not-david-daley\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Did gerrymandering keep Republicans from a bigger majority? Absolutely not | David Daley\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}