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Obama, Holder to lead post-Trump redistricting campaign
The former attorney general heads up a new Democratic effort to challenge the GOP's supremacy in state legislatures and the U.S. House.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/obama-holder-redistricting-gerrymandering-229868#ixzz4NRXEbhdY
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As Democrats aim to capitalize on this year’s Republican turmoil and start building back their own decimated bench, former Attorney General Eric Holder will chair a new umbrella group focused on redistricting reform — with the aim of taking on the gerrymandering that’s left the party behind in statehouses and made winning a House majority far more difficult.
The new group, called the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, was developed in close consultation with the White House. President Barack Obama himself has now identified the group — which will coordinate campaign strategy, direct fundraising, organize ballot initiatives and put together legal challenges to state redistricting maps — as the main focus of his political activity once he leaves office
The gubernatorial candidates who win in 2017 and 2018 are the ones who’ll be in office to approve the maps for the 2022 elections, put together by the state legislators elected along with them. The NDRC plans to hold regular meetings of Democratic groups and allies, building collaborative strategies on recruitment, ad spending, get-out-the-vote and other efforts to maximize resources and impact. House campaigns would then work with state Senate and assembly campaigns, unions, progressive organizations and others in high opportunity areas, hoping to push up their numbers as much as possible ahead of the 2020 census.
“How does the work that we’re going to be doing anyway in House races, how can that trickle down to state legislative races — are there places where you get more bang for your buck?” said Lapp, whose super PAC boosts House Democrats in competitive races.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/obama-holder-redistricting-gerrymandering-229868#ixzz4NRY6qiLq
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The former attorney general heads up a new Democratic effort to challenge the GOP's supremacy in state legislatures and the U.S. House.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/obama-holder-redistricting-gerrymandering-229868#ixzz4NRXEbhdY
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As Democrats aim to capitalize on this year’s Republican turmoil and start building back their own decimated bench, former Attorney General Eric Holder will chair a new umbrella group focused on redistricting reform — with the aim of taking on the gerrymandering that’s left the party behind in statehouses and made winning a House majority far more difficult.
The new group, called the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, was developed in close consultation with the White House. President Barack Obama himself has now identified the group — which will coordinate campaign strategy, direct fundraising, organize ballot initiatives and put together legal challenges to state redistricting maps — as the main focus of his political activity once he leaves office
The gubernatorial candidates who win in 2017 and 2018 are the ones who’ll be in office to approve the maps for the 2022 elections, put together by the state legislators elected along with them. The NDRC plans to hold regular meetings of Democratic groups and allies, building collaborative strategies on recruitment, ad spending, get-out-the-vote and other efforts to maximize resources and impact. House campaigns would then work with state Senate and assembly campaigns, unions, progressive organizations and others in high opportunity areas, hoping to push up their numbers as much as possible ahead of the 2020 census.
“How does the work that we’re going to be doing anyway in House races, how can that trickle down to state legislative races — are there places where you get more bang for your buck?” said Lapp, whose super PAC boosts House Democrats in competitive races.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/obama-holder-redistricting-gerrymandering-229868#ixzz4NRY6qiLq
Follow us: @politico on Twitter | Politico on Facebook
