North Carolina Candidates Scramble for Seats After Last-Minute Redistricting

With only three months before the 2022 election, some North Carolina politicians are struggling to choose their voters. The confusion springs from a last-minute redistricting by the state’s supreme court which has made several leaders reconsider which district they should run in. When Republicans turned in a congressional redistricting map on Feb. 17, the state supreme court argued that the map was unfair toward Democrats. On Feb. 23, a three-judge panel from the court substituted its own map. If the new map survives an appeal from the North Carolina GOP, it will likely gain Democrats two seats in North Carolina, shifting North Carolina from five Democratic districts and eight Republican districts to six Democratic districts, seven Republican districts, and one competitive district. But in the short-term, the new map makes it difficult for candidates to know what district they should be running in. 2022 is an important year for redistricting. After …